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| Keywords: Palais-Royal - Plan du premier étage - Architecture françoise Tome3 Livre5 Ch9 Pl3.jpg LargeImage Architecture françoise Palais-Royal plates 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 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 http //gallica bnf fr/ark /12148/bpt6k1080325/f76 image r langEN 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 Scan Réimpression 1904 de lArchitecture françoise de Jacques-François Blondel Paris 1752 “1756 Creator Jacques-François Blondel 1754 <gallery> File Plan général du batimens du premier étage du Palais Royal c1760 - JH Johnson 1995 p12 jpg lower resolution </gallery> Palais-Royal in Architecture françoise 1754 Plate3 Plans of the Palais-Royal 1754 Première salle du Palais-Royal PD-old-100 | ||||
