The Intendants' Apartments before opening at the Hôtel de la Marine

Why it is on the list

Ange-Jacques Gabriel built the Hôtel de la Marine between 1757 and 1774 for the Garde-Meuble, the office that furnished every royal residence; the Navy kept it until 2015, and it was restored between 2015 and 2021.¹ The Intendants' Apartments were taken back to their late 18th-century state from the original paint found under later coats, 18 of them in the tiled antechamber, and refurnished from the Garde-Meuble's own inventory, with three pieces by Jean-Henri Riesener, two of them classified as national treasures.² The visit ends in the 19th-century state rooms and on the loggia, the balcony of twelve Corinthian columns over the Place de la Concorde.³ The public comes in from 10.30 am to 7 pm; before and after, the monument gives these rooms to a single party with one of its guide-lecturers.⁴⁵

It is a visit, not a dinner: the packages stop at breakfast or champagne on the loggia or in the Intendant's courtyard, and the monument hosts no weddings or birthdays.⁶ For a private visit followed by dinner among the works, the Musée Rodin after hours is the better choice.

How to get it

Write to the monument's private-events team at privatisation-hdm@monuments-nationaux.fr, or call the Centre des monuments nationaux's private events department on +33 1 44 61 20 30.⁵⁷ Ask for a private tour of the Intendants' Apartments, the state rooms and the loggia with a guide-lecturer, from 8.30 to 10.30 am or 7 to 9.30 pm, every day.⁶ It is priced as a flat fee for up to 30 people: EUR 2,250 excluding VAT with a guide-lecturer, EUR 1,750 with the Confident headset instead, and EUR 2,250 for each further group of 30.⁶ Breakfast first (8.30 to 10.30 am) costs EUR 8,000 excluding VAT for 30 with the caterer included; champagne afterwards (7 to 9.30 pm) EUR 5,000; a tour that adds the roof, in the evening only, EUR 5,000 for 20.⁶ Fees are minimum rates and may change with the nature of the event, and every request goes to the monument's team first.⁶

Discretion

Private tours run only outside public opening hours, so the rooms are closed to other visitors.⁵ Cars set guests down at 2 Place de la Concorde; there is no parking in the courtyards, and the nearest car parks are under the Place de la Concorde and at the Madeleine.⁶ The building is a listed historical monument, and parties follow the guidelines of the Centre des monuments nationaux.⁶