Hôtel Le Marois
Hôtel Le Marois

The Hôtel Le Marois was built in 1863 by Count Le Marois, a great art lover, collector and son of General Le Marois, a famous soldier of the Empire and illustrious witness to Napoleon I during his marriage to Joséphine de Beauharnais.​​ Built on the site of a private mansion inhabited by Marie Duplessis, a courtesan renowned for her beauty and her wit, the Hôtel Le Marois is a worthy successor to the reputation of the place: a salon frequented by intellectuals and men of letters from the era. The private mansion remained the property of the Le Marois family until 1927, when it was sold to the Association France-Amériques, founded in 1909 by the French diplomat and academician Gabriel Hanotaux with the aim of promoting relations between France and the American continent.