page_title: Étienne-Louis Boullée
section_title: Hôtel Alexandre
hierarchical_section_title: Étienne-Louis Boullée / Hôtel Alexandre
caption_attribution_description: English: Hôtel Alexandre by Étienne-Louis Boullée
context_page_description: Étienne-Louis Boullée was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects.
context_section_description: The Hôtel Alexandre or Hôtel Soult, rue de la Ville l'Évêque, Paris (1763–1766), is the sole survivor of Boullée's residential work in Paris. It was built for the financier André-Claude-Nicolas Alexandre. In its cour d'honneur four Ionic columns embedded against a recess in the wall plane create an entry (now glazed). Flanking doors in the corners of the courtyard have isolated architraves embedded in the wall above their plain openings, while above oval bull's-eye windows are draped with the swags of husks that became a common feature of the neoclassical manner. The garden front has a colossal order of pilasters raised on the high basement occupied by the full height of the ground floor.
caption: Detail of the facade of Hôtel Alexandre
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