Hôtel de Beaune-Semblançay, Private mansion in Tours, France.

The Hôtel de Beaune-Semblançay is a former private mansion in Tours. Its surviving north wing is a two-storey gallery facade of five bays, with tall rectangular windows divided by mullions between pilasters carved with capitals. One pilaster bears the date 1518. The upper edge is broken, and foliage grows through the unglazed openings.

Jacques de Beaune, a senior financial official under King Francis I, commissioned the construction and expansion of this mansion between 1486 and 1518. The decades-long building project reflected the owner's rising influence and wealth at the royal court.

The mansion reflects how wealthy merchants and royal officials wanted to display their status through architecture in the early Renaissance. Its open gallery and ornamental details showed visitors the owner's refined taste and position in society.

The mansion is located on Rue Nationale in Tours city center and is easy to reach on foot. The south-facing gallery is visible from the street, allowing visitors to view the Renaissance facade without special access.

The north gallery's surviving facade is dated by the millésime 1518 carved on one of its pilasters, which fixes the construction campaign Jacques de Beaune ran between 1518 and 1525 to link his older lodgings. The isolated wall, with its slate-inlaid diamond motifs, is what remains after the west wing and its Renaissance staircase were demolished following damage in the June 1940 fire.