Hôtel particulier

The word hôtel represents the Old French "hostel" from the Latin hospitālis "pertaining to guests", from hospes, a stranger, thus a guest.[3] The adjective particulier means "personal" or "private".

The English word hotel developed a more specific meaning as a commercial building accommodating travellers; modern French also uses hôtel in this sense. For example, the Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde was built as an hôtel particulier and is today a public hotel.

In French, an hôtel de ville or mairie is a town hall and not a hotel. Other official bodies might give their name to the structure in which they maintained a seat: besides Paris, several other French cities have an Hôtel de Cluny, maintained by the abbey of Cluny. The Hôtel de Sens was built as the Paris residence of the archbishop of Sens. The Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris was a theatre, taking its name from the former Paris residence of the Dukes of Burgundy on the site. The Hôtel de la Marine, now a museum, took its name when it was the naval ministry building.

Hôtel-Dieu ("hostel of God") is the old name given to the principal hospital in French towns (and those in Quebec), such as the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune. The Hôtel des Invalides in Paris retains its early sense of a hospital for war wounded.

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  Hôtel de Guénégaud in Paris.
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  Hôtel Prouvost in Roubaix, France.
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  Hôtel de Caumont in Aix-en-Provence.
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  Hôtel d'Assézat in Toulouse.
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  Hôtel de Saint-Aignan in Paris.
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  Hôtel Dahus in Toulouse.
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  Palais Rohan, in Bordeaux.
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  Hôtel de Lalande, in Bordeaux.
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  Hôtel de Besenval in Paris.

• List of hôtels particuliers in Paris
• Domus
• Château
• Mansion
• Single-family detached home

• Monographs have been published on some outstanding Parisian hôtels particuliers.
• The classic photographic survey, now a rare book found only in large art libraries, is the series Les Vieux Hotels de Paris by J. Vacquer, published in the teens and twenties of the 20th century, which takes Paris quarter by quarter and which illustrates many hôtels particuliers that were demolished during the 20th century.
• Blanc, Olivier, Hôtels particuliers de Paris (1998)
• Caylux, Odile et al. Les Hôtels particuliers d'Arles (2000)
• Coquery, Natacha, L’hôtel aristocratique. Le marché du luxe à Paris au XVIII^e siècle, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1998
• Courtin, Nicolas, L'Art d'habiter à Paris au XVII^e siècle : L'ameublement des hôtels particuliers, Paris, Faton, 2011
• Cros, Philippe,Hôtels particuliers de France (2001)
• Gady, Alexandre, Les Hôtels particuliers de Paris, du Moyen-Âge à la Belle époque, Paris, Parigramme, 2007
• Naudin, Jean-Baptiste et al., Hôtels particuliers de Paris: Visite privée (1999).
• Papillault, Remi Les hôtels particuliers du XVIe siècle à Toulouse (Serie Memoires des pays d'Oc)
• Favreau, Bertrand, Une promenade dans Bordeaux, les hôtels parlementaires, B550B, Mérignac, 2012, ISBN 978-2-95410-753-0.

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• Les Vieux Hotels de Paris, Le Faubourg Saint-Germain Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Digital Library.
• Les Vieux Hotels de Paris, Le Faubourg Saint-Honoré Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Digital Library.
• Les Vieux Hotels de Paris, Le Ministère de la Marine Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Digital Library.
• Les Vieux Hotels de Paris, Le Quartier Saint-Paul Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Digital Library.
• Les Vieux Hotels de Paris, Le Temple et le Marais Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Digital Library.