[2] An earlier hôtel on the site was sold in 1620 for 175,000 livres to Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes, who the following year united it with an adjacent house to the west for 8,000 écus.

The property then extended to the ramparts (Wall of Charles V), part of which Louis XIII had given to Luynes, reserving four toises for the passage of the Rue Saint-Nicaise [fr].

On 13 August, Louis gave it to Duke Henri II de Longueville, in exchange for the hôtel the latter had in the Rue des Poulies.

On 30 July 1710, his daughter, Louise de Bourbon [d], brought it as part of her dowry to Charles Philippe d'Albert, Duke of Luynes, to whose family the property thus returned.

[3] The hôtel is depicted on the 1652 Gomboust map of Paris with an entrance screen and a central porte cochère on the rue Saint-Thomas-du Louvre, a cour d'honneur with two lateral wings and a corps de logis between the entrance court and a large garden, which runs all the way to the rue Saint-Niçaise on the west.