"Located inside the walls of the fortified town, the hotel was a former refuge of the abbey of Marchiennes which served as lodgings for the abbot of Marchiennes and visiting monks. The refuge was founded in 1620 by Jean de Joncquoy, abbot of Marchiennes, from two houses bought from the community of Minimes.
Only the porch, dated 1626, remains of the original constructions. The remaining buildings were built between 1710 and 1720 for the central part and the north wing, then added in the 19th century for the south wing.
The family of textile industrialists Boniface, owner since 1804, opposed the destruction of the hotel as part of the renovation of the Saint-Sauveur district and obtained its classification as historical monuments on November 3, 1958.
It was in this hotel that the association for the preservation of the Renaissance of Old Lille was founded in 1964.
In a classic French style imported to Lille after the annexation to the Kingdom of France, the hotel comprises three wings spread around a central courtyard.
The 1958 owners were able to prevent the destruction of the hotel, not the construction of a bar to its right. The 6 co-owners of 2013 unsuccessfully opposed that of a 5-storey building to its left."