Hôtel Le Marois, Private mansion and entertainment center in 8th arrondissement, Paris, France
The Hôtel Le Marois is a private mansion at 9–11 avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Its 1,700 m² plot holds a main building with a seven-window facade, a right wing and left annexes around a rear courtyard, with a third storey of secondary lodgings under the roof.
Built in 1863 for Count Le Marois, son of a Napoleonic general, the mansion was designed by architect Henri Parent on a 1,700 m² plot. It was completed in 1865 and remained in the Le Marois family until 1927, when the Countess de Ganay sold it to the Association France-Amériques.
The Association France-Amériques, founded in 1909 by Gabriel Hanotaux, bought the mansion in March 1927 from the Countess Jacques-André de Ganay, née Le Marois, who had held a "very elegant salon" there. The ground- and first-floor lounges are rented for receptions; the caterer Butard Enescot has held the concession for the Salons France-Amériques since 2015.
The ground-floor and first-floor salons are rented out for receptions, and the second floor was entirely refurbished. The Métro station Champs-Élysées - Clemenceau, served by lines 1 and 13, is the closest access point, and RATP buses 28, 72 and 93 also stop nearby. The building stands at 9–11 avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt.
The HEC Alumni association, representing graduates of the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris, is housed in the mansion. The building also retains a link to a monumental 1827 Horace Vernet painting, Édith retrouvant le corps d'Harold, which was offered to Cherbourg in 1927 and is now kept at the musée Thomas-Henry.
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