Hôtel du Châtelet

The Hôtel du Châtelet features a limestone facade marked by a row of tall, arched windows and a courtyard gate adorned with intricate ironwork. Built in the seventeen seventies by the architect Mathurin Cherpitel for the Duchâtel family, the mansion later served as the residence for the Archbishop of Paris. When the French government took ownership in the early twentieth century, it became the headquarters for the Ministry of Labor. Its corridors still hold the portraits of ministers who drafted the first labor laws.