Hôtel Guimard

The Hôtel Guimard (French pronunciation: [otɛl ɡimaʁ]) was a private home located at 9 rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin in Paris, France.

The building was ultimately demolished as part of the massive urban renewal program headed by Baron Haussmann,[citation needed] which largely reshaped the city during the Second French Empire.

She made her fortune as mistress of the Prince de Soubise and had a hôtel particulier (or mansion) in Pantin, a Paris suburb.

The site featured a sculpture titled Terpsichore Crowned by Apollo, a low relief of the Muse of Dance riding a chariot "pulled by Amours surrounded by Bacchantes and Wildlife and followed by the graces of choreography".

[2] Mlle Guimard welcomed as courtesan the financier Jean-Joseph de Laborde, the bishop of Taranto, and other important persons.