Maison dite Lohobiague Enea ou maison Louis XIV

English translation

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History

Johannis de Lohobiague, mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, heir to a great family of notables who were at once shipowners, merchants and corsairs, had constructed from 1643 onwards a dwelling so sumptuous that it aroused the jealousy of one of his successors who ten years later had the new Town Hall built against the previous one. In this house, from 8 May to 16 June 1660, the young Louis XIV was lodged after his marriage, then in January 1701, Philip V of Spain, grandson of the King of France. The dwelling is a quadrangular building with two principal storeys and an attic storey, flanked on the south side by two turrets in the work and on the north side by two echauguettes framing the main façade called the Louis XIV façade. The decoration is concentrated on the second storey (or noble storey), whose most interesting rooms are: the dining room with panelling painted in the 17th or early 18th century with various scenes and ornaments in the Bérain style; the kitchen, with its fireplace, its stove and its old pewter; the great chamber, with the bed used by Louis XIV; the great salon, with the beginning of uncovering of its painted ceiling.