Hôtel de Champagney, Renaissance private mansion in Battant district, Besançon, France.
The Hôtel de Champagney is a 16th-century mansion at 37 rue Battant in Besançon. Its street facade is Renaissance, with mullioned windows and gargoyles on the attic; the courtyard side has wooden outdoor galleries resting on columns. The building stands on the site of a medieval house, whose street wall remains.
Jacques Bonvalot, Lord of Champagney, commissioned this mansion in 1565 on the site of an earlier medieval house. The construction represented the shift from medieval to Renaissance architecture in the city.
The courtyard side of the Hôtel de Champagney has wooden outdoor galleries resting on columns, a layout tied to the building's 16th-century use as a private mansion. The street wall is older than the mansion itself: it belonged to the medieval house that stood here before 1565 and was kept when Jacques Bonvalot built anew.
The mansion stands at 37 rue Battant, in the Battant district, on the right bank of the Doubs. The street facade and the projecting "Visites" sign are visible from the public road; the courtyard galleries are not. The building belongs to the city of Besançon, so access to the interior depends on guided visits.
The street wall is a remnant of the medieval house that stood here before 1565, when Jacques Bonvalot built his mansion on the site. The Hôtel de Champagney has belonged to the city of Besançon since its protection as a monument historique in 1966.
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