Hôtel d'Hozier, Classical private mansion in 3rd arrondissement, France

The Hôtel d'Hozier is a private mansion with a courtyard and garden at 110 rue Vieille-du-Temple and 9 rue Debelleyme. Its street facade, originally of brick and stone, was raised in the 19th century; the carved portal by Antoine Fauquière dates from 1733, with figures of Mars and Minerva and a cartouche crowned by a lion's head. Two arcaded wings frame the courtyard, the right one once a coach house, and a vestibule at the left leads to a forged stair railing designed by Quirot and on to the garden.

The site was part of the Petits-Marais fief, sold in four lots in 1619 by Denise Gaudart to Jean Thiriot, who built and laid out the street. In 1623 he sold the corner plot to Robert Josselin, squire and lord of Marigny, who built a mansion there that passed through several hands. Denis Quirot remodelled it from 1731 to 1733, and Louis-Pierre d'Hozier bought it in 1735. In 1803 his son Charles, a royalist conspirator, concealed his activities behind a cabriolet business.

In the 1930s, when the building was dilapidated, it housed the French branch of the Bund, the Jewish left-wing organisation, along with its youth wing, the Sotsyalistisher Kinder Farband. The Bundist groups left in 1965 for 52 rue René-Boulanger. The sculptor Sandrine Follère had her studio here from 1996 to 2005.

The mansion stands at the corner of 110 rue Vieille-du-Temple and 9 rue Debelleyme, in the 3rd arrondissement. It is a private residence, so visits concern the street facades and the sculpted portal by Antoine Fauquière, dated 1733, with figures of Mars and Minerva and a lion's head above the door. The courtyard and garden behind are not open to the public.

At the far end of the courtyard, the left vestibule opens onto a forged stair railing made to Denis Quirot's drawings, leading to the garden. There, a wing ends in a cabinet on a conical trompe, decorated with a shell framing a Medusa head; a north wing of brick and stone closes the garden.