Hôtel de Soissons (fra)

Hôtel de Soissons

Hôtel de Soissons ranks 4,436th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Melton Mowbray, Loja, Ecuador, and Nevinnomyssk. Memorable people born in Hôtel de Soissons include Prince Eugene of Savoy, Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano. Hôtel de Soissons has been the birth place of many politicians, and military personnels. Hôtel de Soissons is located in France.

The Hôtel de Soissons was a hôtel particulier built in Paris, France, between 1574 and 1584 for Catherine de' Medici (1519–89) by the architect Jean Bullant (1515–78). It replaced a series of earlier buildings on the same site. After Catherine's death the hotel was enlarged and embellished. The last owner, Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, installed the Paris Bourse in the gardens, He was forced to sell it in 1740 to pay his debts. It was demolished in 1748 and the materials sold. A corn exchange was built on the site, later replaced by the present Bourse de commerce. A column, thought to have been used for astrological observations, is all that remains. Read more on Wikipedia