What's on the site of 398-400 Rue Saint-Honoré at the moment?

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows what's currently on the site of 398-400 Rue Saint-Honoré, Duplay house as was? I've avoided going for years because of the fur shop - now there seems to be a tea shop/cafe when I google it. Either way, I was under the impression there wasn't much of the original building left (there seems to be a dispute about whether the whole thing was rebuilt when the extra floors were added in the 19thc, and the ground floor wall in the courtyard was taken out and made into a glass-fronted bar in the 1950's), but there's a right-wing website chatroom boasting of disrupting the 28th July commemorations in the courtyard last year (if they want a monarch, they can have ours!).
So, does any of it still exist, has it been modernised inside beyond recognition, does the courtyard survive, is it accessible to the public, and is the door that used to open onto the alternative staircase (and that had a preservation order put on it in the 1950's) still there?

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[livviebway.livejournal.com]

I will be heading to Paris in September, so I will be able to confirm then, but here is what I know about the Duplay house.

The house was rebuilt in the 19th century because the original building wasn't strong enough to carry the weight of the extra floors. However, the reconstructed building followed the original floor plan.

The courtyard is still there, you enter it from a little alley off the Rue St Honoré and anyone can go into the courtyard. There had been a restaurant called Le Robespierre there for many years, though it is now closed, in what used to be the Duplay's living room. I don't know what is there now. As of the 1950s the separate door was still there, though it opened onto a storage closet. If it's got a preservation order then hopefully it's still there.

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

I'm leaving for Paris later this week -- if you'd like I can make sure to stop by and take a photo? :)

[misatheredpanda.livejournal.com]

I was there this morning, actually! Um - it was some sort of clothing store, I believe - I paid surprisingly little attention I guess - because I was getting nervous, pacing in front of the same place, while there were lots of people walking by and construction work going on right outside. (I was also having a hard time gauging which building it was, because the street numbers skipped from 392 to 400 or something like that.) But some fellow kindly illustrated the approximate space for me by leaning out the window of the first or second floor and yelling something at the construction workers.

Gosh, this is not a helpful answer at all. I guess my visit was not very productive. :/