Image: Palais-Royal - Plan du premier étage - Architecture françoise Tome3 Livre5 Ch9 Pl3

Description: Plate 3. Plan at the main level (premier étage) of the Palais-Royal in Paris. From Architecture françoise, Tome 3, Livre 5, Chapitre 9 (following p. 44 of the 1904 reimpression). For the original French text discussing this plate, see p. 42 of tome 3 (at Gallica). The portion of the palace shown in the upper right in the plan (labelled with the letter "M") was designed by Pierre Contant d'Ivry and built in the early 1750s for Louis-Philippe the Fat, Duke of Orléans, to house the apartments of the duke's wife, Louise Henriette de Bourbon. The eastern part of the Basse Cour is now the Place de Valois, and the east-facing avant corps on the west side of the Basse Cour and the adjacent portions of its wing are directly across from it on the west side of the rue de Valois (see 2010 photo). The plan also shows the former theatre of the Académie royale de Music (the first Salle du Palais-Royal, labelled with the letter "O"), which is south of the wing with the avant corps and east of the Cour d'entrée (later to become the Cour de l'Horlogue). The theatre and nearby sections of the Palais-Royal were destroyed by fire on 6 April 1763 (see an engraving of the fire), and this resulted in the redesign and reconstruction of the principal sections of the palace. [Ayers, Andrew (2004). The Architecture of Paris, pp. 47–48. Stuttgart; London: Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 9783930698967.] The wing at the upper left, which was demolished in 1784, contained the Grande Galerie with seven wall paintings by Antoine Coypel depicting The Story of Aeneas (completed 1715) and ceiling decorations with six additional paintings depicting the Assembly of the Gods (1702–1705) ["Antoine Coypel" in the The Dictionary of Art].
Title: Palais-Royal - Plan du premier étage - Architecture françoise Tome3 Livre5 Ch9 Pl3
Credit: Scan from the original work: Réimpression [1904] de l'Architecture françoise de Jacques-François Blondel (Paris, 1752–1756).
Author: Jacques-François Blondel
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License: Public domain
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