Hotel de Clévans, Private mansion in La Boucle, Besançon, France.

Hotel de Clévans is a private mansion in Besançon's historic center, featuring a main facade with pilasters and a triangular pediment typical of 18th-century design. The building preserves a historical interior room marked with graffiti from World War II, which documents the space's complex past.

Completed in 1741 for Joseph Lebas de Clévans, a counselor at the Besançon parliament, the mansion was rented to the army in 1818 as a headquarters and from 1828 housed the generals commanding the army corps. The state bought it in 1854. Between 1943 and 1944 it was the seat of the Gestapo, and in 1944 General de Lattre de Tassigny stayed there.

The mansion's name comes from Joseph Lebas de Clévans, the parliament counselor for whom it was finished in 1741. Its main block follows the model of Parisian hôtels particuliers, with the Hôtel de Matignon cited as a parallel. The building is a private mansion and not open to visitors; its listed interiors, protected since 18 December 2001, are not accessible on a tour.

The mansion stands at 4 rue du Général-Lecourbe in La Boucle, set back from the street behind a forecourt; the main facade with its pilasters and triangular pediment faces this courtyard. It is a private, non-visitable building, so the interior, the graffiti cell and the English-style garden behind it cannot be entered. The exterior and the street setting can be seen from the public road.

The graffiti-marked room was witness to Gestapo occupation from 1943 to 1944, with some markings possibly left by prisoners held within those walls. These scratches offer visitors a direct connection to human suffering and acts of resistance during the occupation period.