Renovated hotel, a second life is announced for this abandoned building for many years. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, peasants without land sufficient to feed their families, the inhabitants of the Oise, north of Paris, supplemented their income by working in textiles, lace, ceramics and luxury crafts, before to serve as a workforce for various industries.

In the region of Méru and the Pays de Thelle and in that of Noailles, they were made to drink. They used bone, wood, then ivory, horn and mother-of-pearl. In the surrounding villages, in Sainte-Geneviève and Andeville, they worked in winter, at home or in small workshops.

Each had his specialty: mountings of fans, various objects (jewels, toilet or kitchen sets, liturgical instruments, games) dominoes, then buttons, and did a particular task: roughing, shaping, cutting, engraving or decoration. Tablet merchants came to the villages to collect the coins and sold them to Paris wholesalers every year in late spring. Our hotel attached to the neighboring building, formed at the time the manufacture of mother-of-pearl and the tabletterie.