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We have driven and walked in my eternal Paris, and would like to have an imprint in my blog on the wonderful family times we had there, There is so much to see , doing my best, and glad found me these older pictures in my cd rom vault ,which now transposing in my blog for you and me, This was my former worked city, so glad to post more memorable spots on it, Therefore, here is my take on the Hôtel des Archevêques de Sens of Paris !!! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

The magnificent Hôtel de Sens located at 1 rue de Figuier in the 4éme arrondissement of Paris. today its the Bibliothèque Forney or library since 1961. It has French style gardens and flamboyant  architecture style. The archbishop of Sens Tristan de Salazar ,made built his residence from 1475 to 1519 here. The famous queen Margot was one of its residents, Also known as the Hôtel des Archevêques de Sens is a wonderful architecturally stunning building with a nice history to it.

The Bibliothéque Forney library is part of the network of specialized libraries of the City of Paris, its collections having developed around the decorative arts, crafts and their techniques, fine and graphic arts. Here there are 230,000 volumes dedicated to the graphic arts, and fine arts with technical manuals from the XIXe, postal cards, and millions of painted paper samples , etc. It regularly organizes exhibitions. It takes its name from Samuel Aimé Forney, a businessman of Swiss origin particularly interested in vocational training and the arts and crafts who proposed by will to the City of Paris to create an institution to promote the education of artisans. A wonderful architecturally stunning building for all to see and as a library to visit now

As an anecdote: In 1830, during the Trois Glorieuses, many cannonballs were fired. One of them, never having been able to be extracted from the wall of the facade of the Hôtel de Sens where it had been stuck, has become a concrete testimony of these revolutionary days. Now still sealed in the wall, it is visible with the date engraved below it.

A bit of history I like tell us that this building in Paris did not become archbishopric until 1622. Before that date, the city depended on the archbishopric of  Sens (dept 89 Yonne ,Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) . The Archbishop of Sens Guillaume de Melun, Primate of Gauls and Germania, on which depended seven suffragan bishoprics, among which there were  Paris, was then personal adviser to the kings of France and, his offices often calling him to Paris, he acquired  Jean d’Hestomesnil’s hotel built in 1345. Later King Charles V wishing to stay outside the ramparts of Philippe Auguste, to overcome the nuisances of the city and be able to easily reach the castle of Vincennes and finding the Louvre too narrow and sinister. He then, requested and acquired between 1361 and 1366, four residences in the Marais neighborhood or most of the block between rue Saint-Antoine, rue Saint-Paul, quai des Célestins and rue du Petit-Musc to make his great royal residence, the Hotel Saint-Pol. This set included the hotel that the Archbishop of Sens had built in place of a house and gardens. This first hotel of the Archbishops of Sens was located on the site of the current nos. 2 bis to 8 of the Quai des Célestins. Again later, Tristan de Salazar, archbishop of Sens from 1474 to 1519, had this hotel rebuilt from 1498 to 1519 for a new, more sumptuous residence which is the current building you see. The Hôtel de Sens later lost its splendor as from 1622, the bishopric of Paris was erected as an archdiocese, and the archbishops of 
Sens , stripped of their authority over the Parisian clergy, gradually ceased to reside in the city. From 1622, the hotel was rented to bourgeois then from 1689 to 1743 the Messageries, Coches, Carrosses de Lyon, Bourgogne and Franche-Comté settled there before being occupied by noble knights during the rest of the 17C. Before the French revolution, it belonged to the Archbishopric of Paris then it become national property in 1790. it is sold in 1797 occupied in turn by a rolling business, a laundry, a factory of canned food, a hare cutter, an optician, the Saint-James jam shop and at the beginning of the 20C it is used as a warehouse for Haroux glassworks and is partially destroyed by fire in 1911. It was then bought by the city of Paris, in 1911, to serve as a room for the labor tribunals.It was restored in the 1930s, and since 1961, this building has housed the Forney library, devoted to the fine arts, the arts and crafts and their techniques, the applied arts as well as the decorative arts.

The city of Paris on the Bibliothéque Forney: https://www.paris.fr/lieux/bibliotheque-forney-18

The Paris tourist office on the Bibliothèque Forney or Hôtel de Sens: https://parisjetaime.com/eng/culture/bibliotheque-forney-p1223

The Friends of the Forney Library and their effort to maintain history in Paris: http://sabf.fr/hist/hist.php

There you go folks, a dandy city to explore and enjoy with the family, Memorable moments in my eternal Paris, driving and walking all over in my road warrior trails brings out sublime awesome spots with nice memorable family visits of yesteryear always remember and always looking forward to be back, eventually. Again hope you enjoy the post on the Hôtel des Archevêques de Sens of Paris !!! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!