Hôtel de l’Election

The Élection is a royal commission overseeing tax collection, distribution and, more generally, various financial affairs and other offenses.

Created under the Ancien Régime, it was originally made up of elected members, then, from 1372, appointed by the King.
In Troyes, the Élection had jurisdiction over the entire diocese. It sat in this house from 1628, when Louis XIII acquired it, until 1754, when it moved to the Palais des Comtes. It disappeared during the French Revolution.
The Hôtel de l'Élection certainly dates from the early 15th century. After the fire of 1524, it was rebuilt by Michel Drouot, its owner at the time, a wealthy merchant and future mayor of Troyes (1536-1538). It is a timber-framed house with a fine corbelling and a wide gable with an awning, which was flanked at the rear by a high stair turret. This turret, destroyed by a local fire in 1903, was topped by a remarkable Renaissance finial and weather vane, preserved by the Troyes Museums.

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