The Hôtel de Chimay:

This town house was built by Mansart in the first half of the 17th century and underwent extensive alterations in the 18th. The main, central section, flanked by two wings, has a courtyard in front of it on the quai Malaquais side, while behind it a garden separates it from the Palais des Etudes. After 1884 the interior was almost entirely emptied for the purpose of installing the Ecole's studios. Only the ground floor sitting rooms on the garden side still have decorative elements dating most probably from the Premier Empire period.