The Hôtel de Beauvau -- Zacharz on Line

The Hôtel de Beauvau

Headquaters of the French Interior Ministry

The name of the palace stems from the name of pre-Revolution prince-marshal's name, Charles-Just de Beauvau (1720-1793) who was the first person to inhabit this place. The palace was built by a king's architect, Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières. In 1859 the French state bought it in order to establish there the Ministry of Algeria, which was due to be set up. However, the then Minister of Interior Victor Fialin, count and later duke of Persigny, obtained from Napoleon III the approval to move the Ministry from the rue de Grenelle to the hôtel de Beauvau, which still hosts this Ministry.

The main entrance , place Beauvau

The "salon ministre"

The minister's office

The salon Claude Erignac

The Hôtel de Beauvau seen from the garden

An office

Ancient vehicles of the gendarmerie nationale