Hôtel Mansart

The hotel is named after Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646–1708), the architect of King Louis XIV. The hotel's website says that Mansart was the architect of its building and that the building was completed in 1720. In 2015 the website also said that John Law, France's controller general of finances, built the house to Mansart's plans. The French Ministry of Culture's heritage database records the same names and years for two houses on place Vendôme itself. The square's façades were built to Mansart's plans in 1702. John Law bought the building plots at 3 and 5 place Vendôme, at the square's southern end near rue Saint-Honoré, in 1718, and the architect Jacques Gabriel built two houses there in 1719 and 1720.^[6][7][5][2]

Félix de Rochegude's 1910 guide to the streets of Paris records that numbers 5 to 11 rue des Capucines were the stables of the Duchess of Orléans in 1730, and notes carved masks and a coat of arms with fleurs-de-lis at number 5. The hotel's building is not a protected historic monument.^[4][3]

The hotel also says that the jeweler Alexandre-Gabriel Lemonnier (about 1808–1884) lived in the building. Lemonnier was named jeweler to the French Crown in 1853 and made the crown of Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III, for the Paris world's fair of 1855. The crown is now in the Louvre. The Paris trade directory of 1865 gives his address as 25 place Vendôme, the building on the corner where rue des Capucines begins.^{[6][7][10][11][12]}

By 1860 the address was a hotel. Émile de La Bédollière's guide Le Nouveau Paris, published that year, lists the Hôtel de Calais at 5 rue Neuve-des-Capucines, the street's name until 1881. The Baedeker travel guide to Paris marked it as recommended in 1872, with rooms from 2 to 10 francs, and still listed it in 1898. The Musée Carnavalet holds a photograph by Charles Lansiaux, taken between 1890 and 1922 where rue de la Paix and rue des Capucines meet place Vendôme. It shows a sign for the Hôtel de Calais with the words "seule entrée" (only entrance) and "rue des Capucines".^{[13][12][14][5][15]}

The Cine-Tourist, a website that identifies film locations, lists the Hôtel de Calais at 5 rue des Capucines among the outdoor locations of the 1955 heist film Du rififi chez les hommes. In Jules Dassin's film, a gang robs the Mappin & Webb jewelry shop at 1 rue de la Paix.^[16][17]

Hôtel Mansart SAS, the company that runs the hotel, was registered on 19 February 1991 and is headed by Esprit de France, the hotel group that Christophe Paluel-Marmont founded in 1981. The hotel had three stars and 57 rooms in 2006 and four stars by 2015. Atelier Paluel-Marmont, a design firm whose principal architect is Cybèle Paluel-Marmont, completed an interior design project at the hotel in 2017. The hotel says its one modern artwork, on the staircase in the hall, is a sculpture by Georges Jeanclos titled Esprit de France, made for the hotel.^{[18][19][1][8][20][6][9]}