Hôtel de Soubise

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The Hôtel de Soubise is a city palace, located at 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, in the IIIe arrondissement of Paris.

The Hôtel de Soubise was built for the Prince and Princess de Soubise on the site of a manor house built in 1375. On March 27, 1700, François de Rohan, prince de Soubise bought the Hôtel de Clisson and asked the architect Pierre-Alexis Delamair to remodel it completely. Works started in 1704.

Since a Napoleonic decree of 1808, this residence has become the property of the French republic.

Nowadays it hosts the Musée de l'Histoire de France (Museum of French History) and a part of the French National Archives.

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