Hôtel de Nupces, Private mansion in the historic centre of Toulouse, France.
The Hôtel de Nupces is a private mansion at 15 rue de la Bourse in Toulouse, built between 1716 and 1728. Its U-shaped plan has a five-bay central logis and two wings around a rectangular cour d'honneur. The courtyard facade shows a three-storey red-brick and pale-stone front, with a round-arched wooden door, a small stone balcony with iron railing, and tall windows with stone surrounds under a dentilled cornice.
The building was constructed between 1716 and 1728 for Jean-Georges de Nupces, president of the Toulouse parliament, as a display of wealth and power. Over the centuries it underwent multiple renovations and received a major restoration in the 1970s.
The Nupces family made its fortune in the cloth trade in Albi before buying a seat at the Toulouse parliament. The mansion's name comes from this family, into which Marie de Paulo brought the earlier Lancefoc house through her marriage to François de Nupces. Between 1765 and 1770 Jean-Joseph de Senaux commissioned the ironwork for the balconies and the staircase railing from the locksmith Bernard Ortet.
The mansion is located on rue de la Bourse in the city center and now houses apartments, offices, and the Goethe Institute, which limits public access to the interior. From the street you can view the classical architecture and courtyard from the outside.
The ironwork of the courtyard balconies and the staircase railing was commissioned between 1765 and 1770 from the locksmith Bernard Ortet by Jean-Joseph Dominique de Senaux, who had received the mansion in 1759 as part of his wife's dowry.
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