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Reconnu comme une demeure de grande qualité dès le milieu du xvie siècle, le futur hôtel Séguier fut fortement amélioré pour le duc de Bellegarde à partir du milieu des années 1620. Ces importants travaux étant restés inachevés, il revint à Pierre Séguier, acquéreur de la propriété en 1634, de les faire terminer sur un plan encore plus imposant que celui prévu. Le chancelier fit ensuite à nouveau agrandir à plusieurs reprises son hôtel, au sein duquel il constitua notamment, à la fin de sa vie, une suite impressionnante de pièces entièrement dévolues à l’exercice de ses fonctions et à la parade.

Recognized as a residence of high quality since the middle of the sixteenth century, the future Hôtel Séguier was greatly improved upon for the benefit of the Duke of Bellegarde from the middle of the 1620s onwards. These important works having been left unfinished, it fell upon Pierre Séguier, who purchased the property in 1634, to ensure that they were completed on an even grander scale than was previously envisaged. The chancellor took it upon himself to expand his residence on various occasions, as a result of which, by the end of his life, it came to comprise an impressive suite of rooms that were fully devoted to the exercise of their functions, as well as display purposes.