Militaryn Academy Paris

The Ecole Militaire, the French Military Academy, stands at the end of the panoramic Champ de Mars. Built on the initiative of the financier Paris Duverney and of Madame Pompadour, who wanted young men of the poorer classes to be able to take up military careers, it was constructed between 1751 and 1773 by the architect Jacques Ange Gabriel. The facade has two orders of windows and in the centre is a pavilion with columns which support the pediment, decorated with statues and covered by a cupola. The graceful Courtyard of Honour has a portico of twin Doric columns and the facade is formed by three pavilions linked by two rows of columns. Still in use as a military academy today, it was entered in 1784 by Napoleon Bonaparte, who left the following year with the rank of second lieutenant in the artillery.





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