page_title: Hôtel de Blossac
section_title: The need and the location
hierarchical_section_title: Hôtel de Blossac / History / Construction of the hôtel de Blossac / The need and the location
caption_attribution_description: English: View from the Place du Calvaire, in Rennes. On the left street (rue du Chapitre), we can see the main gate of the Hôtel de Blossac&#160;; on the right street (rue de Montfort), the trees from the garden. Français&#160;: Vie depuis la place du Calvaire à Rennes. Dans la rue à gauche (rue du Chapitre), on voit le portail de l'Hôtel de Blossac&#160;; dans la rue à droite (rue de Montfort), les arbres du jardin.
context_page_description: The Hôtel de Blossac is an 18th-century hôtel particulier in the historic center of Rennes, Brittany.
  The building, which has two main wings, was constructed in 1728. The architect is said to have been Jacques Gabriel. The building has a unique classical architecture for Brittany, including its size, the assembly of several architectural components, and its grand staircase.
  Property of the La Bourdonnaye family, earls of Blossac, for nearly two centuries, it was leased by the city as the residence of the commander in chief of the province of Brittany, with a pomp reminiscent of the court of France. At the French Revolution, it was divided into apartments and became a residential building, where the author Paul Féval was born.
  The building was designated as a historic monument in 1947, and underwent a complete exterior restoration spread over three decades, while the apartments give way to offices. It has been wholly owned by the state since 1982 and houses, in refurbished and restored rooms, the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles and in service quarters, the service territorial de l’architecture et du patrimoine.
context_section_description: The hôtel de Blossac was built in 1728 on the initiative of Louis Gabriel Labourdonnaye, Earl of Blossac, President of the Parliament of Brittany, to make it his residence. Jean-François Huguet supervise the construction.
  The construction is done on a bare area resulting from the Rennes fire in 1720, partly by taking the old Hotel de Brie in the west and enjoying the place left by the fire in the east. The new parcel is bounded by the street south of the Chapitre and the Saint-Sauveur (and church) to the north, remain, while the limit on the street is becoming the rue de la Mitterie, traced in a straight line and called Montfort Street. The southeast corner is the only occupied by other buildings rebuilt in 1723 on style adopted for the new city. The plan prepared in 1722 by engineer Isaac Robelin in charge of rebuilding the city, leaving the family to a surface Labourdonnaye strangely arranged, which will start construction of the “Hôtel de La Bourdonnaye de Blossac” in 1728.
caption: Buildings on the south-east parcel, in the style adopted for the reconstruction of the city. We can see the gate of the hotel on the rue du Chapitre (left), and trees of the garden in the rue de Montfort (right).
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