Hôtel d'Évreux, Private mansion in 1st arrondissement, France

The Hôtel d'Évreux is a private mansion in the 1st arrondissement of Paris featuring symmetrical facades with decorative stone carvings and tall windows. The structure spans multiple levels with balanced proportions, where each architectural detail aligns in harmony with the whole composition.

Built between 1706 and 1708 by architect Pierre Bullet behind a facade designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the hôtel was commissioned by financier Antoine Crozat as a wedding gift for his daughter Marie-Anne and the comte d'Évreux, who found it too modest and built his own residence on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in 1718-1722. After 1742 Pierre Contant d'Ivry remodelled the interior for Louis-Antoine Crozat, replacing the original straight-flight stair with the present double-curved wrought-iron escalier d'honneur. The Crédit foncier de France bought it in 1862; the emir of Qatar acquired the complex in 2003 and restored it in 2009.

The name comes from the Count of Évreux, son-in-law of the financier Antoine Crozat, for whom the house was built. In the 1750s and 1760s it held the Crozat Collection, one of the few art collections open to the public in Paris, catalogued in 1755 and sold in 1772. The building now houses the Paris offices of the law firm White & Case and reception rooms run by the caterer Potel et Chabot.

The mansion stands at no. 19, place Vendôme, in the north-west corner of the square, next to the Hôtel Crozat at no. 17 and the Hôtel de Fontpertuis at no. 21; the Ritz Paris occupies the former Gramont and Crozat mansions nearby. It is not open as a museum: the building houses the Paris offices of the law firm White & Case and reception rooms run by the caterer Potel et Chabot, so the interiors are seen only by invitation or at private events. Visitors can walk the square and read the facades from outside.

The two halves of the wrought-iron stair rail, installed by Pierre Contant d'Ivry between 1744 and 1749, each rest on a facing console and meet at the upper landing, where a cartouche once bearing the Broglie-Crozat arms is still visible.