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# Banker Émile Gaillard built a Paris mansion for his collection of antiques
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/eto-strannoe-i-nemnogo-duratskoe-sozdanie-letiashchee-po-kamennym-perilam-neorenesansnogo-osobniaka-v-tsentre-parizha-bankir-emil-gellard/
- Published: 2019-06-12T16:18:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:57:53.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Paris, People

This strange and slightly daft creature, flying along the stone balustrade of a Neo-Renaissance mansion in the centre of Paris, is the banker Émile Gaillard. As you may have guessed, he came from a wealthy but provincial family. The banker assembled an enormous collection of medieval and Renaissance antiques, and built a veritable castle worthy of it, to house the lot. Today the Hotel Gaillard is home to a society for economic education, and the bearded little fellow with tiny hooves and wings reminds every visitor of the heights to which capital can raise a man