PARIS. HÔTEL DE BOHÊME. 3 charters, 1484-1493; oblong in-8 parchments (approx. 9 x 25 cm each). 3 charters concerning the fountain and decoration of the armory room of the Hôtel de Bohême. [The Hôtel de la Reine, now the Hôtel de Soissons, in the Halles district, on the site of the Bourse de Commerce, has been known as the Hôtel de Nesle, the Hôtel de Bohême, the Hôtel de Bahaigne or the Hôtel d'Orléans, according to the names of the noble families to whom it successively belonged, since the 1230s. Built by Jean II de Nesle, it was owned by Saint Louis, who gave it to his mother Blanche de Castille; Philippe le Bel inherited it and gave it to his brother Charles de Valois; it then passed to his son Philippe de Valois, who became King of France and gave it to Jean de Luxembourg, son of Emperor Henry VII of the Holy Roman Empire and himself King of Bohemia: it was then renamed Hôtel de Bohême; it was then sold by Marie de Blois to Charles VI, who offered it to his brother Louis, Duke of Touraine and Orléans; it was then renamed Hôtel d'Orléans.] October 2, 1484. Pierre Rémy, master builder for the Duc d'Orléans, certifies that he has repaired the fountain pipes, "since the work and repairs carried out for mondiseigneur le duc in his hostel in Behaigne, called lostel dorleans [...] and to the lead pipe through which the water runs from the fountain to the said hostel, Jehan de Soing, plommier et fontenier, living in Paris, has put and used [...] new lead pipe in the pipe of the lad. fontaine, which pipe had a hole in it and was broken"... June 28, 1493. P.S. by Guillaume Piefort, provost of the hôtel duc d'Orléans, confessing to having received from Jacques Hurault, treasurer of the duc, 4 livres et 5 sous "pour avoir fait habiller et mettre en estat les tuyaulx de la fontaine de Behaigne". July 10, 1493. P.S. by Charles Sezan, secretary to the Duc d'Orléans. 9.5 x 27 cm. Jacques du Saulier, merchant in Paris, confesses to having received from Jacques Hurault, "treasurer, argentier & receveur" of the Duc d'Orléans, the sum of 10 livres 17 sols 6 deniers tournois "for xiii pièces et demi de toille jaune et rouge quil a vendu [...] pour faire rideaulx et garnir par le dedans les aulmoizes et tables de la chambre d'armement [...] en la maison de Bahaigne"...