Hôtel de Villette, Private mansion in 7th arrondissement, Paris, France

The Hôtel de Villette is a private mansion in the 7th arrondissement featuring carefully carved stone facades and tall windows arranged across several stories. The building displays fine decorative details and ornamental stonework typical of French classical residential architecture.

The mansion dates from the 17th century; the financier Jacques de Vassan sold it on 28 April 1636 to the property developer Le Barbier. From 1766 to 1769, under the Marquis de Villette, the architect Charles De Wailly transformed and richly decorated it. Voltaire lived there from February 1778 until his death on 30 May in a second-floor room facing the courtyard.

The name comes from the Marquis de Villette, who owned the building from 1766 to 1769 and had Charles De Wailly redecorate it. A plaque on the facade records that Libération-Nord resistants, among them Henri Ribière, met here during the Occupation, and a Histoire de Paris panel stands to the left of the building.

The mansion stands at the corner of 27 quai Voltaire and 1 rue de Beaune, in the 7th arrondissement; the rue de Beaune carriage door with its sphinxes and griffins faces the street. Métro line 12 stops at Rue du Bac and RER line C at Musée d'Orsay. A Histoire de Paris panel to the left of the building explains its past.

Voltaire died on 30 May 1778 in a second-floor room facing the courtyard; in July 1791 his funeral procession to the Panthéon stopped in front of the mansion. On 15 August 2013 the lawyer Jacques Vergès died in the same room, at the home of his friend the marquise Marie-Christine de Solages.