Hôtel de Bourgtheroulde

The hôtel de Bourgtheroulde is a former hôtel particulier at 15 place de la Pucelle (formerly the place du Marché aux veaux and long thought to have been the square where Joan of Arc was burned) in the historic city centre of Rouen. It mostly dates to the 16th century. Its façades and rooves were made a monument historique on 11 January 1924 Its architecture is similar to that of the Rouen Courthouse and the city's Bureau des Finances, both of the same date as the Hôtel. Guillaume II Le Roux, lord of Bourgtheroulde and member of the Exchequer of Normandy, decided to build a stone townhouse worthy of his rank at the end of the 15th century and chose the Louis XII style, the transition between the Flamboyant Gothic style and French Renaissance architecture. His son Guillaume III continued embellishing the building and completed his father's work on it. In the inside courtyard, on the left, is the Aumale Gallery with high-quality Renaissance sculpted decoration showing the Field of the Cloth of Gold meeting between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England and scenes from Petrarch's allegorical poem Triumphs. The building was partially damaged on 19 April 1944 during 'red week' and its interior decor was destroyed by bombing on 26 August the same year, just before the city's liberation. Until 2006 it housed the Crédit industriel de Normandie bank, before being completely restr