Chambre de Commerce

English translation

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History

From the middle of the 17th century, the merchants of Tours had acquired buildings at this location to install the cloth hall and the ell office there. A century later, they resolved to have an edifice constructed. The hotel comprises four main dwellings developing around a central courtyard. On the street side, ornamentation is reduced to a shell above the door and a pediment in which the arms of Tours appear. The courtyard facades are more refined. The ground floor of the southern wing is occupied by a vast vaulted room, divided into two naves separated by six arcades resting on five prismatic pillars. This room is the former cloth hall. In the western wing, a staircase with wrought-iron ramp leads to the meeting room of the Chamber of Commerce, decorated with panels by the painter Souiller, and to the hearing room of the commercial court whose ceiling is by the painter Maurice Mathurin.