page_title: Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy
section_title: Hotel de Villeroy
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy / Hotel de Villeroy
caption_attribution_description: English: A distinctive 5-shaped ornamentation (for Nicolas V) on the guardrail of the grand staircase of the monument historique building Hôtel de Villeroy in Paris. Français&#160;: Dans l'hôtel de Villeroy, le chiffre “5” est forgé dans la rambarde de l'escalier d'honneur pour commémorer le duc Nicolas V de Villeroy, qui l'a reconstruit en 1640.
context_page_description: Nicolas V de Neufville de Villeroy was a French nobleman and marshal of France. He was marquis then 1st duke of Villeroy and peer of France, marquis d'Alincourt and lord of Magny, and acted as governor of the young Louis XIV. His son François succeeded him as duke. He was the lover of Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont.
context_section_description: In 1640 Nicolas de Villeroy built a hôtel particulier on 34 rue des Bourdonnais in the center of Paris in the district of les Halles. The House was built on the grounds of a former mansion already belonging to the Villeroy family since 1370. It has a second entrance from 9 rue des Dechargeurs The beautiful courtyard of the building was frequently visited by the young King Louis XIV who lived in the nearby Palais Royal and played there as a child with his brother Prince Philippe d'Orleans. The Hotel de Villeroy still exists today, and in 1984 it was protected as a historic monument. Part of it is today used by the International Exposition center Cremerie de Paris which hosted in June 2012 the Nike Barber Shop. The Barber Shop was the center of the advertisement campaign of the US company Nike, Inc. Information tours are organized every month giving the public the possibility to discover the staircase and the courtyard of the Hotel de Villeroy.
caption: Detail of a number 5 symbol (for Nicolas V) featured at the bottom of the lower railing of the grand staircase of the Hotel de Villeroy.
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