English: 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].