Hôtel de Chapelaines, Renaissance townhouse in Troyes, France

The Hôtel de Chapelaines is a 16th-century private mansion at 55 Rue Turenne in Troyes. Its pale stone facade is divided into five bays by pilasters, with tall windows under carved pediments and iron balconies on the upper floor, and a carved stone balustrade below the steep slate roof. The ground floor has a large arched double door painted grey, flanked by two small plaques, with a barred window to the left and two shopfront openings to the right, one bearing a red sign reading "L'ATELIER".

Nicolas Largentier (II), a cloth dyer, built the stone mansion after the 1524 fire converted the Clairvaux Abbey leases into perpetual ownership. His grandson Nicolas Largentier (V) pledged in 1535 to finish the work, largely completed in 1536. The house was pillaged in 1586 during the religious wars, and in 1597 Nicolas Largentier (VI) bought the land of Chapelaines, giving the mansion its name.

The house takes its name from Chapelaines, the estate in the Marne that Nicolas Largentier (VI) bought in 1597 from Catherine de Clèves, Duchess of Guise, and where he built a large château. The Troyes residence was then called Chapelaines. In 1774 it was known as the hôtel de Loynes, after the family of Marie-Claude Camusat's husband.

The building stands at 55 Rue Turenne and remains private property, though its facade and roof have been registered as historical monuments since June 1926. Visitors can admire the exterior but cannot enter the interior.

Nicolas Largentier (VI) left his wife, trade and house to serve Henry IV against the League; his home was pillaged in 1586 by the trade guilds protesting taxes on their crafts. The king later compensated him with 20,000 livres in assignations, and in 1597 he bought the estate of Chapelaines, whose name the Troyes house took.