Maison Armance

The stretch of rue Cambon between rue de Rivoli and rue Saint-Honoré, where the hotel stands, was opened under a government decree of 1802 on the site of the former convent of the Assumption. The street was called rue Neuve-du-Luxembourg, and later rue de Luxembourg, until 1879. It was then renamed after Joseph Cambon (1756–1820), a member of the revolutionary National Convention who created the national register of France's public debt.^[1][2]

Stendhal, the French novelist best known for The Red and the Black, lived on rue Cambon from 1810, when it was still called rue Neuve-du-Luxembourg. Stendhal was the pen name of Henri Beyle, who then worked for Napoleon's government. In 1810 he was appointed an auditor at the Council of State, Napoleon's main advisory body, and an inspector of the furniture of the imperial household. With his new income he rented an apartment on the street, according to his biographer Arthur Chuquet. He was living there in March 1814, when the armies allied against Napoleon attacked Paris. On 7 April 1814, after the city had surrendered, he signed a declaration supporting the new government and gave his address on it as no. 3 rue Neuve-du-Luxembourg.^[3][4]

The hotel says it takes its name from Armance, Stendhal's first novel, which was published in Paris in 1827. The hotel also says that Stendhal lived in this building in the early 19th century.^[6][5]

By 2003 the building held a three-star hotel called the Hôtel Résidence La Concorde, and its website listed 25 rooms in 2012. In 2017 Esprit de France, a family-owned hotel group, took charge of the company that ran the hotel, and in 2018 the company changed its name to Maison Armance. By 2019 the hotel had been renovated and was operating under the new name. The interior architects Flora de Gastines and Anne Geistdoerfer, of the Double G studio, reworked every room and redrew the layout.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}