45. PLAN OF CHAMBER OF 

 DEPUTIES, ARRANGED BY G. 

 DE GlSORS AND LECOMTE, 

 IN THE PALAIS BOURBON 

 ( J 795)) AND LARGELY RE- 

 CONSTRUCTED BY J. DE 



JOLY (1829-33). 



480 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



Vicar of Bray, whose political convictions 

 shifted with every change of government, 

 and were equally ardent under each. This 

 new faade (Fig. 449) was placed at an 

 angle with the older buildings so as to lie 

 in the axis of the Rue Royale and be the 

 central feature in the south side of the 

 Place de la Concorde. The hall was so 

 hastily and cheaply put up that it soon 

 became necessary to rebuild it. The 

 present " Chambre des Deputes " dates 

 from 1829-33, and was designed by J. J. B. 

 de Joly (1788-1865). 



The Luxembourg, which was in very 

 bad repair, and had recently been used 

 as a prison, was selected as the seat of the 

 executive under the Directory and the 

 Consulate. The necessary alterations car- 

 ried out by Chalgrin (1795-1805) included 

 a new state Staircase in the right wing, involving the destruction of the 

 Rubens gallery, while de Brosse's central stair was removed to make 

 way for a vestibule leading through from court to garden, with a hall 

 above it for the Senate, of similar plan to that in the Palais Bourbon. 

 The hall was rebuilt and the whole of the central part of the palace 

 remodelled, being doubled in thickness, by H. de Gisors under Louis 

 Philippe. 



PALACES. Under Napoleon, Compiegne, Fontainebleau, St Cloud, 

 and the Grand Trianon were used as imperial residences, and were 

 restored and partly redecorated by Percierand Fontaine, much of whose 

 work there is still to be seen, e.g., the Salle des Fetes and the apart- 

 ments of the imperial family at Compiegne (Fig. 448), and in Napoleon's 

 apartments at Fontainebleau (Fig. 452). The Emperor, who did not 

 inhabit or alter the palace of Versailles, had conceived a singular project 

 in regard to its gardens, namely, to replace what he regarded as the 

 vulgar taste of their nymphs and other ornaments by panoramas of the 

 capitals he had conquered, executed in masonry. Happily this scheme 

 fell to the ground like another, which was elaborated by his architects, 

 for a colossal palace to be situated, first near Lyons, and then near 

 Paris, on the site of the present Trocadero, with gardens and accessory 

 buildings extending to the Arc de 1'Etoile, the Bois de Boulogne, and 

 the Ecole Militaire. He contented himself eventually with undertaking 

 the completion of the Louvre and Tuileries. Percier and Fontaine re- 

 decorated the latter as his town residence, and brought to a conclusion 

 the restoration of the old Louvre commenced in the eighteenth century. 



