Hôtel de Saint-Seine

English translation

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History

The hôtel is constructed around 1420 by the family of Mailly, one member of which was chamberlain to the dukes of Burgundy Philippe the Bold and John the Fearless. The building is rebuilt from 1644 on the 15th-century structures. This ensemble comprises a main dwelling body, of L-shaped plan, housing, in the body on the street, a staircase with three straight flights, on supporting barrel vaults in rampant half-barrel and squinches, bordered by wrought iron railing of 1664. The walls of the staircase cage have been decorated with four busts placed on consoles. The staircase cage is covered by a ceiling bordered by a moulded cornice, an entablature with modillions and metopes with heraldic decoration. The centre of the ceiling opens onto an oval lantern light. The right wing houses a second staircase, constructed in 1844, and various buildings distributed around a courtyard and garden. The ground floor of the right wing is composed of a vestibule decorated in neo-Renaissance style giving access to the staircase and to an antechamber, decorated in neo-Renaissance style in the early 19th century. This contains a monumental fireplace with mantelpiece decorated with a bas-relief and stucco statues, attributed to the sculptor Jean Dubois, a drawing room fitted out in the late 18th century by the sculptor Jérôme Marlet, a bedroom with parquetry floor in Charles X style. The first floor comprises a vestibule followed by a drawing room-library with Restoration-style decoration.