Hôtel de Gallifet

[4] Léotard bestowed the building onto the House of Gallifet, a noble family originating from the Dauphin region of the South of France, as part of a marriage agreement for his daughter Madeleine de Léotard d’Entrages to Simon Alexandre Jean de Galliffet, seigneur du Tholonet from 1716-1793.

The building was later owned by General and Marquis Gaston-Alexandre-August, Prince of Martigues, a French military man born in Paris in 1830.

The courtyard additionally has original graffiti by artist Miss.Tic In 2010, Hôtel de Gallifet proposed to host Francois Arnal's last retrospective, Happy Days.

The following year in 2012, a summer show entitled Fragile displayed works from artists Charlotte Cochelin, Claudia Squitieri, Dan Miller, Emilie Schalck, Julien Salaud, Laura Todoran, Little K, Mai Hofstad, Maxime Chanson, Michael Dandrieux, Samon Takahashi, Thomas Geffrier, and Tiphaine de Bodman.

Furthermore, Hôtel de Gallifet hosted French Kiss, a show with a theme of multiculturalism and harmonious, integrated living.

That year, a classical music event organized by L’Acadèmie des Nuits Pianistique featured Carlos Roqué Alsina and Frederic Aguessy.

[13] In 2015, the hotel hosted exhibitions and installations by abstract artist Arnaud Lapierre[14] and German painter and printmaker Martin Werthmann.