Immeuble

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History

At the time of the creation of the place Louis-le-Grand, adjacent lands were proposed to officers of finance, but also to speculator architects of the Bâtiments du Roi, the management of transactions having been ceded by the King to the échevins of Paris. This is the case of the southern part of the rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs which is of concern to this file (present-day rue Danielle Casanova, odd-numbered side). The lands were proposed for sale around 1699; they were acquired by building owners between 1702 and 1707. Indeed, these lands were rarely built on by the first purchasers. The economic difficulties of the country had made real estate operations difficult. Jules Hardouin Mansart for his part had arranged for the King to give him a certain number of lands, before 1699, including those corresponding to nos. 17 to 27 of rue Danielle Casanova. Deceased in 1708, it was his widow who continued the sale which he had undertaken. The constructions were spread out between 1703 approximately and 1715. Several buildings were erected in pairs such as 97 and 99 (29 and 31 rue Danielle Casanova) or again 93 and 95 (25 and 27 rue Danielle Casanova). Names of architects are known; thus Jacques Mazière for 89 (21, rue Danielle Casanova) and Germain Boffrand for 101 (33, rue Danielle Casanova). The whole of these buildings was the object of acquisition or repurchase by adjudication between 1837 and 1842, which corresponds perfectly to the dating of the arrangements visible today in the common areas and on the rear façades, quite typical of the Louis-Philippe period. These buildings were first and foremost function dwellings, intended for royal "functionaries". Most often double in depth, they have a return wing, sometimes matching that of the contemporary adjacent building, and comprising the staircase, around a common courtyard with a common well also. The ground floor is devoted to stables, numerous, the mezzanine to servants' lodgings, while the upper floor has large reception rooms and anterooms with wainscoting. The staircases, for the most part retouched in the early 19th century, have often retained their railings. The vestibule and the carriage passage testify to the arrangements of the first half of the 19th century. The façades on the street have retained their elevation and their treatment of the 18th century while the façades on the courtyard have evolved through the successive rearrangements of the courtyard and the buildings giving on to the passage Gomboust.