Hôtel de Sade (Avignon)

France / Provence-Alpes-Cote-dAzur / Avignon
 palace, council house - local government
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The Hôtel de Sade retains the name of its first proprietors. The Sade family had several houses on this street, which bore their name in the fifteenth century. But it was Thomas de Gadagne who inherited the edifice and commissioned its reconstruction in 1536-37. The hôtel then passed on to Lesdiguières who had work carried out in the seventeenth century after the designs of François de Royer de la Valfenière. The hôtel, which returned to the Sade family between 1741 and 1766. It is currently occupied by the Country Council. www.avignon.fr/en/visites/visite2en.php
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Coordinates:   43°56'51"N   4°48'19"E
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