 In 1820 it was given to the Société du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus, whose Dames du Sacre-Coeur, dedicated to the education of young women, converted the hotel into a boarding school for girls from aristocratic families.They stripped the house of all luxuries, mirrors and "boiseries" and added a chapel.Under the 1905 French law on the separation of Church and State, however, the school was forced to close.