Perhaps this structure is the remains of some great mansion; but after examining all the existing old maps of Paris, we find nothing which bears out this conjecture.
Moreover, the title-deeds of property under Louis XIV.

was Petitot, the celebrated painter in miniature, who obtained it originally from President Lecamus.

We may therefore believe that Lecamus lived in this building while he was erecting his more famous mansion in the rue de Thorigny.
So Art and the legal robe have passed this way in turn.

How many instigations of needs and pleasures have led to the interior arrangement of the dwelling! To right, as we enter a square hall forming a closed vestibule, rises a stone staircase with two windows looking on the garden.

Beneath the staircase opens a door to the cellar.