Hôtel Jean-Vergès

English translation

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History

The cadastre of 1566 already mentions buildings at the location of the Hôtel de Vergès where lodge Jehan de Vergès, physician and lord of Brimont, and his son-in-law. It is not known whether these are already the current buildings but it is established that the hôtel underwent restoration in the second half of the 16th century. The daughter of Jehan de Vergès of Brimont, Claude de Vergès of Brimont, inherited the property and titles of her father and married Caprazi de Las (king's procurator at the Présidial). The marriage took place in 1563 but had no issue and Caprazi de Las inherited the building after the death of his wife around 1569. "We think, in view of the inscription on the façade (AN. CHR. MVLXXV.) and the information we have gathered that the cadastre of 1594, that he had a vast dwelling rebuilt on this site: a hôtel on the street, with an interior courtyard, a second 'lower courtyard' and dependencies to the north for horses" (Patrick Fraysse). One thus moved from two houses, noted in the cadastre of 1566, to a single building on the cadastre of 1594. In his 1993 thesis, Patrick Fraysse estimates that the building now called "Hôtel de Vergès" must actually have been built in 1575 by Caprazi de Las, the son-in-law of Vergès. Olivier Salmon however judges the North façade to be of later date. It was thus by his second marriage in 1569 with Isabeau de la Vigerie that Caprazi de Las obtained a line of descent (known under the name of Las de Brimont) which transmitted the hôtel to the beginning of the 19th century.