The Orléans Chancellery in the National Archives

It was at the request of Philippe d’Orléans, the future Regent of France after the death of Louis XIVth, that the mansion known as the Chancellerie d’Orléans was built from 1703 near the Palais Royal.
Its construction was entrusted to the architect Germain Boffrand and it received a high quality decoration from that time.

Then inhabited by the d’Argenson family, it was renovated by Charles De Wailly in the 1760s, and was then considered among the most refined of Parisian private mansions.

The mansion having been demolished at the beginning of the 20th century, its decorations were preserved by the Banque de France, which had become its owner.
After having lain dormant for many years, these extraordinary decorations were reassembled, at the end of an exceptional heritage project, on the ground floor of the Hôtel de Rohan. T
he mansion is the eastern part of  the National Archives compound, enclosed within four different streets in the Marais.

The meeting point is outside Hotel de Ville metro station exit number 7, facing 16, rue du Temple.