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25-616: The Hôtel Biron ( French pronunciation: [otɛl biʁɔ̃] ), known initially as the Hôtel Peyrenc-de-Moras and later as the Hôtel du Maine , is an hôtel particulier located at 77 rue de Varenne, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris , that was built from 1727 to 1732, to the designs of the architect Jean Aubert . Since 1919, it has housed the Musée Rodin , dedicated to the work of Auguste Rodin . The hôtel

50-416: A chapel. Under the 1905 French law on the separation of Church and State , however, the school was forced to close. The house was subdivided into lodgings, and plans were afoot to demolish the mansion entirely and replace it with a block of flats. Auguste Rodin rented several rooms on the ground floor in which to store his sculptures. The rooms became his studio; there he worked and entertained friends among

75-720: Is referred to as le septième . The arrondissement, called Palais-Bourbon in a reference to the seat of the National Assembly , includes some of the major and well-known tourist attractions of Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower , the Hôtel des Invalides ( Napoleon 's resting place), the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal , as well as a concentration of museums such as the Musée d'Orsay , Musée Rodin and

100-499: Is the location of so many French government bodies, this arrondissement has never been as densely populated as some of the others. In 1999, the population was 56,985, while the arrondissement provided 76,212 jobs. An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On

125-688: The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac . Situated on the Rive Gauche —the "Left" bank of the River Seine —this central arrondissement, which includes the historical aristocratic neighbourhood of Faubourg Saint-Germain , contains a number of French national institutions, among them the National Assembly and numerous government ministries . It is also home to many foreign diplomatic embassies , some of them occupying outstanding hôtels particuliers . The arrondissement has been home to

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175-1000: The equestrian events for the 1900 Summer Olympics . Jacques Sgard Look for Jacques Sgard on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Jacques Sgard in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

200-475: The 17th century, French high nobility started to move from the central Marais , the then-aristocratic district of Paris where nobles used to build their urban mansions (see Hotel de Soubise ), to the clearer, less populated and less polluted Faubourg Saint-Germain . The district became so fashionable within the French aristocracy that the phrase le Faubourg has been used to describe French nobility ever since. The oldest and most prestigious families of

225-517: The French upper class since the 17th century, when it became the new residence of France's highest nobility . The district has been so fashionable within the French aristocracy that the phrase le Faubourg —referring to the ancient name of the current 7th arrondissement—has been used to describe French nobility ever since. The 7th arrondissement of Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine form the most affluent and prestigious residential area in France. During

250-583: The French nobility built outstanding residences in the area, such as the Hôtel Matignon , the Hôtel de Salm , and the Hôtel Biron . After the Revolution many of these mansions , offering magnificent inner spaces, many reception rooms and exquisite decoration, were confiscated and turned into national institutions. The French expression "les ors de la Republique" (literally "the golds of

275-623: The Musée Rodin has been able to buy back boiseries and decorative paintings formerly in the house, which were stripped out by the Dames du Sacre-Coeur and sold. In the 1980s, the museum was able to buy two of Lemoyne's overdoors, Venus Showing Cupid the Ardour of his Arrows (acquired in 1985), and the Labours of Penelope (acquired in 1989), and restore them to their original positions. In 1993,

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300-731: The Republic" ), refers to the luxurious environment of the national palaces (outstanding official residences and priceless works of art), comes from that time. During the Restauration , the Faubourg recovered its past glory as the most exclusive high nobility district of Paris and was the political heart of the country, home to the Ultra Party. After the Fall of Charles X , the district lost most of its political influence but remained

325-510: The arrondissement. The American University of Paris , a private liberal arts university, maintains several buildings near the Quai d'Orsay . The Ministry of Agriculture , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Education have their head offices in the arrondissement. Politically, the arrondissement is situated firmly on the right. The mayor of the 7th, Rachida Dati ,

350-513: The beauty of the flowers and the variety of the borders. They walked among the flower beds and the shrubberies, marvelling at the boldness and elegance of the trellis work forming gateways, arcades, grottoes, domes, Chinese pavilions..." By the end of the eighteenth century, the faubourg was becoming demodé , with the westward development of fashionable Paris on the Rive Droite . The duc de Biron's heir, Armand Louis de Gontaut , duc de Lauzun,

375-601: The centre of the French upper class ' social life . During the 19th century, the arrondissement hosted no fewer than five Universal Exhibitions ( 1855 , 1867 , 1878 , 1889 , 1900 ) that have immensely impacted its cityscape. The Eiffel Tower and the Orsay building were built for these Exhibitions (respectively in 1889 and 1900). The arrondissement has a total land area of 4.088 km (1.578 sq mi; 1,010 acres). The 7th arrondissement attained its peak population in 1926 when it had 110,684 inhabitants. Because it

400-493: The house and gardens as they were in 1752, shows the deep terrace at the rear with a few wide bowed steps that led to matching parterres containing shaped compartments set in gravel and surrounded by shrubs tightly clipped in cones which flanked a wide central gravel walk. To the left of the deep cour d'honneur and entered from it, neatly clipped cabinets de verdure —small open-air rooms and recesses in fanciful shapes, connected by short galleries—were cut into solid greenery. To

425-407: The landscape architect Jacques Sgard  [ fr ] remodeled and replanted the gardens to enhance the display of some of Rodin's larger works. Notes Bibliography Further reading 7th arrondissement of Paris The 7th arrondissement of Paris ( VII arrondissement ) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France . In spoken French, this arrondissement

450-405: The other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants. Important places include: Air Liquide , Alcatel-Lucent , and Valode & Pistre have their head offices in this arrondissement. Public and private high schools: Istituto Statale Italiano Leonardo Da Vinci , an Italian international school, maintains two campuses in

475-491: The overgrown gardens. In 1909, Rodin, at the height of his fame, began to agitate for the Hôtel Biron to become a museum of his work. Some restoration work was carried out in 1911–1912 by the architect Henri Eustache. Rodin proposed to make a bequest of his property, his archives and the contents of his studio at the time of his death, and the French government accepted in 1916. The museum opened in 1919. Since World War II,

500-400: The right of the court was a subsidiary stable courtyard. Soon the gardens were swept away by the duc de Biron, in favour of a miniature park à l'Anglaise , achieved with trelliswork. When the "comte du Nord", the future Paul I of Russia , and his countess (who were traveling technically incognito for pleasure) visited Paris in 1782, they toured the garden, "one of the wonders of Paris, admiring

525-432: The seventeenth century. The house is still surrounded by three hectares (7.3 acres) of grounds. The house had boiseries carved in the full-blown rococo manner and has two elliptical salons that form attached pavilions at the corners of the garden front. There were sixteen medallions or overdoor paintings by François Lemoyne , premier peintre du roi , enframed in the paneling. The Hôtel Peyrenc-de-Moras, as it then was,

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550-510: Was Minister of Justice under Nicolas Sarkozy 's presidency and a member of the European Parliament for the centre-right UMP from 2009 to 2019. In the 2017 French presidential election , the 7th gave right-wing candidate François Fillon 52.7% of its votes in the first round, compared to his poor national showing of only 20%. It then went on to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the runoff by a landslide. The arrondissement hosted

575-554: Was built for a financier, Abraham Peyrenc de Moras , who had speculated successfully in the ill-fated paper money schemes of John Law that had ruined many, at a time when the Faubourg Saint-Germain was still suburban in character. His house was built as a free-standing structure, not entre cour et jardin ("between entrance court and garden") with party walls against adjoining buildings, as hôtels in more densely built quarters of Paris were traditionally built since

600-459: Was completed in 1732, just a year before Peyrenc's death. His widow leased the house to the duchesse du Maine , who had married a natural son of Louis XIV ; she took possession in January 1737 (Kimball loc. cit.), and made some minor changes. Upon the death of the duchess in 1753, the mansion became the property of the maréchal de Biron , hero of Fontenoy , whose name it has carried. A plan of

625-640: Was guillotined in 1793. During Napoleon's reign, the Hôtel de Biron was the seat of the Papal legate and then of the Russian ambassador. In 1820, it was given to the Société du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus, whose Dames du Sacre-Coeur, dedicated to the education of young women , converted the hotel into a boarding school for girls from aristocratic families. They stripped the house of all luxuries, mirrors and boiseries and added

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