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Hôtel du Poët

hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ16844986 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hôtel du Poët is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence.

Location

It is located on the Place Forbin at the top of the Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence.

History

In 1730, Henri Gautier (1676-1757) purchased some land at the top of the Cours Mirabeau, where there was an old watermill. He commissioned architect Georges Vallon (1688-1767) to design a hôtel particulier: the Hôtel du Poët. Later, it was home to a chemist and a printing press.

It is an example of baroque architecture. The facade has mascarons. Inside, the main staircase has columns, and Louis XVI handrails with the Poët escutcheons.

Heritage significance

It has been listed as a "monument historique" since 3 November 1987.

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“Hôtel du Poët” enters the record as hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hôtel, Poët and hôtel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1730, 1676, 1757, 1688—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hôtel, Poët and hôtel.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16844986. The first chronological checks are 1730, 1676, 1757 and 1688.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hôtel du Poët” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.