Hôtel de Rolland
Eighteenth-century merchant's mansion with a sculpted façade, now the seat of the town hall.
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This guide to the Hôtel de Rolland, Carcassonne's town hall, follows Jean-François Cavailhès, a cloth merchant's son who in the seventeen-forties cleared a whole block to build a showpiece in the style of Louis the Fifteenth. It moves through the sculptors he hired, the rooms made for receiving guests, and the lawyer's family whose name stayed on the door for more than a century. Best heard on the pavement, looking up at the carved façade.
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