Talk:Hôtel de Condé

Naming: Hôtel de Condé and Hôtel de Bourbon-Condé

Either one is the "Hôtel de Condé", and no distinction need be made— as long as only one is discussed: certainly no distinction was being made by contemporaries. James Parker was a fastidious writer. No doubt he followed the names as given in M. Gallet, Demeures parisiennes, l'époque de Louis XVI 1964. (I don't have it here.) Allan Braham, "Charles de Wailly and Early Neo-Classicism", The Burlington Magazine 114 (October 1972, pp 678, 671f) discusses the theatre built in the gardens of the "Hôtel de Condé", signifying the architecturally less distinguished but socially grander main hôtel particulier of the Condé. Braham illustrates Charles De Wailly's early (1770) Projet de la nouvelle Salle de Comédie francaise dans le Terrace de l'hotel de Condé, fig. 35, p. 676. J.-M. Peyre, in his Oeuvres d'architecture, 1765, illustrated a project, whether executed or not, for a symmetrical staircase in two curving flights placed in the vestibule of the "Hôtel de Condé"; he had exhibited it to the Académie in 1763, according to Braham 1972:678 note 34. As long as there are hatnotes, even the well-prepared reader will not get confused between Hôtel de Condé and Hôtel de Bourbon-Condé— as long as Wikipedia is consistent. The articles seem perfectly fin as they stand. Permit me copy this to both talkpages, as my only contribution to discussion of the article titles.--Wetman (talk) 10:35, 10 May 2010 (UTC)