The Hôtel Carnavalet, built by Pierre Lescot in 1548, is the only example of a Paris house to survive from the middle of the sixteenth century. It was remodeled in 1660-61 by François Mansart.
The picture shows one of a set of survey drawings of the Hôtel Carnavalet made by Cyril A. Farey (1888-1954), a British architect and architectural illustrator.
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