Hôtel de Sens
In Hôtel de Sens—also known as the Hôtel des archevêques de Sens—Paris once kept a high-powered residence for the archbishops of Sens, whose influence shaped the city’s urban landscape before Paris became an archdiocese in 1622. The story began with an earlier mansion built here in 1345, later used by Charles V as part of the royal hôtel Saint-Pol complex. When the kings shifted to the Louvre, that earlier building was destroyed, and the hôtel that most people mean today was erected between 1475 and 1519, with its construction attributed to Tristian de Salazar. Over time, the mansion hosted major prelates—including figures such as Antoine Duprat, Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme, and Louis de Lorraine—and Margaret of Valois lived there in 1605 and 1606. A well-known anecdote links her to the rue du Figuier: she cut down a fig tree that blocked her carriage. …
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