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On the death of the second duke of
Castries, the hôtel passed to his nephew Edmond Charles Auguste de La Croix de Castries. On his death in 1886, his widow remarried, to vicomte Emmanuel d’Harcourt, who sold the hôtel de Castries to the Montgermonts. The hôtel was therefore lived in by prince
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on rebuilding of the house and expansion of its gardens from 1708 to 1714. The
Castries family held onto it until the end of the 19th century. On his death, the building was rented in 1729 to Charles Armand de Gontaut-Biron (1663-1756), for 7,500 livres a year.
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In 1842, on the death of his father, the second duke of
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On 27 September 1708, Jean Dufour's widow, Angélique Guyner, sold the hôtel to Jean François de La Croix de
Castries (1663-1728), first marquis de Castries, who bought it with an inheritance from his uncle the
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