Henri Gautier

Henri Gautier (1676–1757) was a French aristocrat, landowner and public official.

Henri Gautier was born in 1676 in Aix-en-Provence.

[2][3][4] He purchased the lands of Le Poët, Vernègues and Valavoire.

[1][2] On 24 April 1724 King Louis XV of France granted him a hereditary title of nobility.

[2][3] In 1730, he purchased the land at the top of the Cours Mirabeau where there was an old watermill and commissioned architect Georges Vallon to design a hôtel particulier that came to be known as the Hôtel du Poët.