Hôtel Talleyrand
Brief description
Source : Tito Dupret / 1001wonders.org
The “hôtel particulier“, meaning “private residence“, was built for the comte de Saint-Florentin, in 1770. It was then called "Hôtel de Saint-Florentin". In 1812, the famous Statesman, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, turned the building into his Parisian residence where he received in 1814 the Czar Alexander I, the King of Prussia, and Lord Wellington in order to negotiate peace in Europe and the restoration of the French Monarchy. After WWII the U.S. Government purchased the building. The Marshall Plan, which restored the war-ravaged Western European economies, was administered from the building. Today the building houses several government agencies and The George C. Marshall Center.