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Hotel de Bourgtheroulde, Autograph Collection
Rouen, France · Autograph Collection · Core Luxury
Guillaume II Le Roux began this Louis XII-style townhouse around 1501 on Rouen's place de la Pucelle; his son finished the Aumale Gallery, a Renaissance loggia carved with bas-reliefs of the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold meeting between Francis I and Henry VIII. Classified a monument historique in 1924, the building survived a 1770 fire and 1944 bombing, then served as a bank until 2006. It reopened in 2010 as a five-star Autograph Collection hotel with 78 rooms and what it bills as Normandy's largest indoor hotel pool.
- 78 rooms
- Opened 2010
- Neighborhood: Vieux-Marché-Cathédrale
- Architect: Guillaume II Le Roux; Pierre-Louis Carlier
About Hotel de Bourgtheroulde, Autograph Collection
- The Aumale Gallery's limestone bas-reliefs depict the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold and scenes from Petrarch's Triumphs.
- Façades and roofs were classified as a monument historique on January 11, 1924.
- Cardinal Alessandro de' Medici was a guest here in 1596 while the house was still in the Le Roux family.
- From 1848 until the end of 2006 it housed banks, latterly Crédit industriel de Normandie.
- Bombed in April 1944 and again on August 26 just before Rouen's liberation; the south tower was rebuilt without its lost sculptural decoration.
History
The Hôtel de Bourgtheroulde is a former hôtel particulier at 15 place de la Pucelle in the historic centre of Rouen, one of the city's foremost monuments and a rare survival of early French Renaissance architecture in Normandy. Guillaume II Le Roux, lord of Bourgtheroulde and a member of the Exchequer of Normandy, began building this stone townhouse around 1501 in the Louis XII style, a transition between Flamboyant Gothic and the French Renaissance; his son Guillaume III continued the work and added the celebrated Aumale Gallery, a loggia carved with bas-reliefs depicting the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold meeting between Francis I and Henry VIII and scenes from Petrarch's Triumphs. The building's façades and roofs were classified as a monument historique in 1924.
After passing out of the Le Roux family by the end of the 17th century, surviving a serious 1770 fire that destroyed and rebuilt its north wing, and enduring bomb damage in 1944, the building served from 1848 as a bank, latterly the Crédit industriel de Normandie until the end of 2006. Following a complete restoration led by the Société lilloise d'investissement hôtelier (SLIH), it reopened in 2010 as a five-star hotel affiliated with Marriott International, later joining the Autograph Collection. Today it offers 78 rooms and suites, the restaurant L'Aumale, and a spa with what is billed as the largest indoor pool in Normandy.
The setting
1 km from Gare de Rouen-Rive-Droite. 1 km from Musée des Antiquités.
Amenities
- Spa
- Indoor pool
- Sauna
- Fitness center
- Fine dining
- Pet-friendly
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