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Lonely Planet review

France's National Archives are housed in the Soubise wing of the Hôtel de Rohan-Soubise. Here you'll find antique furniture and 18th-century paintings but primarily documents - everything from medieval incunabula and letters written by Joan of Arc to the wills of Louis XIV and Napoleon. The ceiling and walls of the interior are extravagantly painted and gilded in the rococo style.