It houses the Institut de Management Public et Gouvernance Territoriale of Aix-Marseille University.

[1][2][3] It was built as two separate houses for the Roman Catholic archbishopry, as it is next door to the Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur.

In the eighteenth century, his descendants sold the hotel to the Forbin La Barben family.

[1] In 1743 (shortly before his death), Honoré Boyer de Fonscolombe (1683–1743) inherited it from his sister.

[3] It also displays paintings by Nicolas Pinson (1636–1681) and Esprit Antoine Gibelin (1739–1813).