Keywords: Plan général du batimens du premier étage du Palais Royal c1760 - JH Johnson 1995 p12.jpg Category Palais-Royal in Architecture françoise 1754 Category Palais-Royal in Architecture françoise 1754 Palais-Royal in 1754 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 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 User scan of Johnson James H 1995 Listening in Paris A Cultural History p 12 Berkeley University of California Press ISBN 9780520206489 <br />The original is from Blondel Jacques-François 1754 Architecture françoise Tome 3 Livre V Chapitre XIX Planche 3 http //gallica bnf fr/ark /12148/bpt6k1080325/f83 image r langEN View at Gallica Creator Jacques-François Blondel 1754 publication <gallery> File Palais-Royal - Plan du premier étage - Architecture françoise Tome3 Livre5 Ch9 Pl3 jpg higher resolution </gallery> PD-old-100 Palais-Royal in Architecture françoise 1754 other versions Plate3 Première salle du Palais-Royal |