Editing Étienne-Louis Boullée (section)

==Hôtel Alexandre==
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[[File:Hôtel_Alexandre_3.jpg|thumb|Hôtel Alexandre in 2019]]

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.<ref>The house passed to the marquis de Collonge, then to the [[Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult|maréchal Soult]], from 1802 to 1818, whose name it now also sometimes bears.</ref> 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.