The architect was Hadfield & Son and the building was modelled on the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity at 140 Rue du Bac in Paris.
The Quai Voltaire begins at the Rue des Saints-Pères and ends at the Rue de Bac and the Pont Royal.
Some of its elements have been redisplayed at the musée Jacquemart-André, the Hôtel de Pontalba (rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré) and the castle of Vaux-le-Pénil (near Melun in Seine-et-Marne department).
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The original 18th century interior had sumptuous wood paneling adorned with work by the painters Carle Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Jean II Restout.
De La Rue | Rue | BAC One-Eleven | Rue 89 | BAC TSR-2 | Sara Rue | Rue Laurier | Danny La Rue | BAC | Rue Saint-Honoré | Rue Laurier (Gatineau) | Bac Mòr | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Théâtre de la Gaîté (rue Papin) | Rue, Somme | Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris | Rue Saint-Jacques | Rue McClanahan | Rue La Boétie | Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré | Rue de la Loi | Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin | rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin | Rue Clémenceau | Nguyễn Bặc | BAC Jet Provost | Bač | Yên Định, Bắc Giang | Việt Bắc | Viet Bac |
Georges-Hippolyte Adrien was born at 46, Rue du Bac in Paris, to linen draper Honoré-Charles-Emile Adrien, born in 1822 in the Charente, and Françoise-Sidonie Adrien, née Chatel.