Hôtel de Sully

Hôtel de Sully Review

This early Baroque gem, built in 1624, is one of the city's loveliest hôtels particuliers and has an equally lovely garden. Like much of the area, it fell into ruin until the 1950s, when it was rescued by the administration of French historic monuments, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, which is headquartered here. An extensive and much-delayed renovation, completed in 2012, has given the building a refreshed look. The on-site bookstore (with a 17th-century ceiling of exposed wooden beams) stocks specialized Paris guides in English. Walk through the garden past the Orangerie for a small passage into the nearby Place des Vosges where Sully's best buddy, King Henri IV, would have lived had he not been assasinated in 1610.