Palate of Chaillot

The Palate of Chaillot to Paris 16 {{E}} district, located Place of Trocadéro and November eleven on the hill of Chaillot, was carried out at the time of the World Fair of 1937 by the architects and Grands Prix of Rome Leon Azéma, Jacques Carlu and Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, instead of the Ancien Palate of Trocadéro.

History

The hill of Chaillot sheltered since 1651 the convent of the Visitation, destroyed after the Révolution. The empty esplanade in the middle of Paris which resulted from this destruction caused many projects: Napoleon there desired an imperial city in the honor of his/her son, the King de Rome; the Sculpteur Antoine Etex wished as for him a monumental fountain and a headlight. But nothing of all that was carried out. In front of the popular success of the Spanish forwarding of 1823 and its victory with the Extremely of Trocadéro by the duke of Angouleme, Louis XVIII had the idea to build a Monument in homage to this feat of arms. The “Trocadéro villa” was a palate of style Mauresque, flanked of two Minarets 70 m height.

The Ancien Palate of Trocadéro was then built by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais for the World Fair of 1878, with gardens of the Engineer Alphand. Later, at the time of the World Fair of 1937, the building was destroyed and replaced by the Palate of Chaillot, which kept of it part of the framework and the configuration of two wings in half-circles.

Structure

The Palate of Chaillot is thus made of two houses and two curvilinear wings determining a central vacuum (the Esplanade of the human rights) and going down towards the the Seine. Between the two wings “of Passy” and “Paris”, the Jardin of Trocadéro dominate the sight on the Eiffel Tower and the Champ de Mars.

The whole of the building is characterized by an abundant statuary which had, inter alia, with the artists Paul Belmondo, Leon-Ernest Drivier and Marcel Gimond. The two houses are surmounted monumental groups carved by Raymond Delamarre and Carlo Sarrabezolles. In front of, are located the garden of Trocadéro, decorated sculptures and of a vegetation organized within a landscaped garden framing basins in cascade, the fountain of Warsaw, set up in 1937 and running out by twenty water jets staged on eight successive stages.

Contents of the buildings

The Palate of Chaillot shelters several museums of which the Musée of the Man, of the Marine, the National theater of Chaillot, as well as the Cité of architecture and the inheritance (Musée of the French monuments, École of Chaillot and French Institut of architecture - IFA). The reorganization of the wing of Paris was accompanied by the final removal of the French Cinémathèque with Bercy.

It is in this palate that the General meeting of the United Nations adopted the Universal declaration of the Human rights the December 10th 1948. The inscriptions on the pediment of the Palate are the work of the poet Paul Valéry:

Side Museum of the Man:

It depends on that which passes That I would be tomb or treasure That I speak or conceals to me This holds only with you Ami does not enter without desire

Side Museum of the Navy:

Any man creates without the knowledge, as it breathes. But the artist feels to create. Its act engages all its being, its sorrow liked well strengthens it.

External bonds

Photographs of the Palate of Chaillot during renovation works
Palate of Chaillot on GoogleMaps
History of the Palate of Chaillot

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