The Hôtel de Boisgelin () is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Location It is located at number 11 on the rue du Quatre Septembre, on the Place des Quatre Dauphins, in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence.Provence, Le Petit Futé, 2009 p. 169 Douglas Goldring, The South of France: The Lower Rhône Valley and the Mediterranean Seaboard from Martigues to Menton, Macdonald, 1952, p. 116
History It was designed by architects Pierre Pavillon (1612-1670) and Jean-Claude Rambot (1621-1694), and built for Louis Le Blanc de Montespin in 1650.René Borricand, Les Hôtels particuliers d'Aix-en-Provence, 39 rue Espariat, 1971, p. 45 Histoire d'Aix-en-Provence, C.Y. Chaudoreille, 1977, p. 174 In 1697, it was purchased by Pierre-Joseph Laurens-Brue. That year, he commissioned architect Laurent Vallon (1652-1724) to design a grand staircase inside. It was later inherited by the Boisgelin family.
It comes with a courtyard and a garden. In the garden, there is a fountain under the foliage, thus always in the shade in daytime.Henri Dobler, Le cadre de la vie mondaine à Aix-en-Provence aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Boudoirs et jardins, F. Detaille, 1928, p. 119
Heritage significance It has been listed as a monument historique since 1964.
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