Hôtel Jean de Pins

The Hôtel Jean de Pins.

The Hôtel Jean de Pins in Toulouse, France, is a Renaissance hôtel particulier (palace) of the 16th century. Its double gallery on the courtyard is a listed historical monument since 1995.[1]

History

The hotel is built around 1528 by Jean de Pins, one of the most renowned humanists of the Renaissance of Toulouse. He died in 1537 and his heirs sold it in 1542 to Jean de Nolet, who undertakes to have it restored, transformed and enlarged by famous architect Nicolas Bachelier.

The hotel had to be destroyed at the end of the 19th century to make room for the newly traced rue du Languedoc. Of this seductive building remain only the galleries adorned with busts in medallion presented at the bottom of the courtyard.

In 1899, the prolongation of the Alsace-Lorraine street between Place Rouaix and Rue du Vieux-Raisin resulted in the expropriation of part of the hotel for public use. Soon after, Antonin's family built a new hotel on the site of the old one, keeping only a part of the arcades. They trace the galleries of the 16th century, witnessing two distinct periods of the Renaissance of Toulouse, merging them.

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Bibliography

  • Jules Chalande, « Histoire des rues de Toulouse », Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse, 12e série, tome IV, Toulouse, 1926, p. 150-151.
  • Guy Ahlsell de Toulza, Louis Peyrusse, Bruno Tollon, Hôtels et Demeures de Toulouse et du Midi Toulousain, Daniel Briand éditeur, Drémil Lafage, 1997

References

  1. ↑ Mérimée PA00135452, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Hôtel de Pins et hôtel Antonin

Coordinates: 43°35′56″N 1°26′46″E / 43.5988°N 1.4460°E / 43.5988; 1.4460

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