Palais De Chaillot Paris

Along with the gardens of the Trocadero, the Champs EIysees and the Eiffel Tower, the Palais de Chaillot constitutes a fine example of the architecture at the beginning of the 20th century. It was built for the Exhibition held in Paris in 1937. Its architects were Boileau, Azema and Carlu, who planned the present building on the site of another previous structure, the Trocadero. Of the latter, built by Napoleon for his son, the King of Rome, only the plans by Percier and Fontaine remain. The Chaillot Palace consists of two enormous pavilions which stretch out in two wings, united by a central terrace with statues of gilt bronze. From here a vast and splendid complex of terraces and stairways, embellished with fountains and jets of water, slopes down to the Seine. The two pavilions, on the front of which are engraved verses by the poet Valery, today contain the Museum of the Navy, the Museum of Man and the Museum of French Monuments.





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