Hotel d'Hane-Steenhuyse
Rococo townhouse where an exiled French king held court during the Hundred Days of eighteen fifteen.
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This guide to the Hotel d'Hane-Steenhuyse in Ghent follows a house that did a job most homes never face: putting up the powerful. It moves from the builder Jan Baptist Simoens and three generations of the d'Hane counts to a parade of guests that includes Talleyrand, a Russian tsar and John Quincy Adams. At its heart is the spring of eighteen fifteen, when an exiled French king arrived on the Veldstraat. Best heard from across the street, where you can take in the whole front facade.
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