[1] The hôtel particulier was not built by the Duc de Lauzun whose name it bears, but by a wealthy financier, Charles Gruyn des Bordes,[2] the son of an inn-keeper grown rich from his trade and richer still, according to at least one pamphleteer,[3] through speculation enabled by his title as general commissioner of cavalry during the civil disorders of the Fronde.

Gruyn des Bordes purchased the lot in 1641, but by the time he was prepared to build, he had new neighbours in the Île Saint-Louis to emulate, namely, the Hôtel Lambert de Thorigny.

Once he clandestinely wed his lover, La Grande Mademoiselle, she ransomed him from the King and he immediately purchased the building from de Mony's son.

In 1709 the Marquis de Richelieu sold the house to Pierre-François Ogier, Receveur général du Clergé [fr] who further enriched its interiors.

In the 1840s, when the building (now known as Hôtel Pimodan) belonged to the bibliophile and collector, baron Jérôme Pichon, auditor for the Conseil d'État, the upstairs apartments were rented to Charles Baudelaire (in 1843, for 350 francs[6]) and Théophile Gautier.

[7] The hôtel was featured in Bruno Dumont's 2009 film Hadewijch,[citation needed] and in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate,[8] as the apartment of Baroness Kessler.