Hôtel Reynier

English translation

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History

A building no doubt built by Bernard Davasse de Virvin or Virbent, capitoul in 1763. On the first floor, the facade is adorned with five wrought iron balconies in the Louis XV style. The slabs are supported by corbels shaped like fleurons supporting garlands. Each balcony comprises, as its main motif, three sheet metal vases with narrow neck and bulging belly decorated with fluting. From the neck emerges a tuft of acanthus from which emanate three stems bearing in the middle a marigold, and on each side two carnations. The flowers are framed by a double line of curved rods, joined at the top by a bouquet of acanthus leaves. The vases are separated by a motif reproducing the outline of a shell with five lobes, joined at the lower part by a four-petalled rose. If the facade and main dwelling date from the Louis XV period, the rear section retains an octagonal Gothic tower from the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century, the construction of which can be attributed to the Reynier family.