Antoine d'Aumont de Rochebaron

Antoine d'Aumont, 1st Duke of Aumont was a French nobleman who was created the 1st Duke of Aumont in 1665 by King Louis XIV who had already created him a Marshal of France in 1651. His dukedom went extinct in 1888 after the death of the 10th Duke of Aumont Louis Marie Joseph d'Aumont. The Duke commissioned the construction and exstention of what became the Hôtel d'Aumont which was painted by Charles Le Brun and gardens designed by André Le Nôtre and in 1938, was purchased by the City of Paris, and restored and classified as a monument historique. Since 1959 the tribunal administratif of Paris has been housed in it. A radical restoration of the decayed framework was completed in 1964.