Hôtel de la Païva
| Hôtel de la Païva | |
|---|---|
Main façade on the Champs-Élysées | |
Location within Paris | |
| General information | |
| Type | Hôtel particulier |
| Architectural style | Italian Renaissance |
| Location | 25 Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France |
| Current tenants | The Travellers Club |
| Construction started | 1856 |
| Completed | 1866 |
| Client | Esther Lachmann, known as La Païva |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Pierre Manguin |
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The Hôtel de la Païva (French pronunciation: [otɛl d(ə) la paiva]) is an hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse in France, which was built between 1856 and 1866, at 25 Avenue des Champs-Élysées by the courtesan Esther Lachmann, better known as La Païva (hence its name). She was born in modest circumstances in a Moscow ghetto, to Polish parents. By successive marriages, she became a soi-disant Portuguese marchioness and a Prussian countess, this last marriage supplying the funds for the hôtel, at which she gave fabulous feasts. Since 1904, the house has been used by the Travellers Club of Paris, a gentlemen's club which was all-male until the 2000s.