Hôtel de Crillon, Palace hotel at Place de la Concorde, France.
The Hôtel de Crillon occupies the western of two identical stone palaces built by Ange-Jacques Gabriel on the Place de la Concorde, its central bay advancing beneath a triangular pediment carved with a mythological scene and flanked by sculpted trophy groups. Tall fluted columns rise through two storeys between the windows, above a grooved ground level whose entrance sign reads "HOTEL DE CRILLON". A tricolour flies from the roofline; the Hôtel de la Marine, its twin, stands across the Rue Royale.
Ange-Jacques Gabriel designed the facade in 1758 for Louis XV's Place Louis-XV; behind it, Louis-François Trouard built the house from 1775 for the Duke of Aumont. In 1778 Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane and Arthur Lee signed the first Franco-American treaties here. The Crillon family owned it from 1788 until 1904; Walter-André Destailleur converted it into a hotel that opened on 11 March 1909.
The building takes its name from François-Félix-Dorothée de Berton des Balbes, Count of Crillon, who bought it in 1788. Its Salon des Aigles, decorated in 1775 by Pierre-Adrien Pâris, is a protected landmark, and the hotel has hosted the Bal des débutantes from 1992 to 2012.
The hotel occupies the western palace at 10 place de la Concorde, with a second address at 2 rue Boissy-d'Anglas behind it. The main entrance faces the square; the rue Boissy-d'Anglas side is the quieter approach. The building is a classified monument historique, so the facades and the Salon des Aigles are protected.
The building's 18th-century boudoir, designed by Pierre-Adrien Pâris, was sold in the 1900s and shipped to Manhattan; since 1944 it has been at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as the "Crillon Room". The three ceremonial salons were likewise sold off during the 1907 conversion.
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