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November 25, 2009Architect: Jean Bouiller de Bourges Now converted to the Picasso Museum, this former mansion was built for Pierre Albert, Seigneur...
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December 1, 2009Architect: Libéral Bruant / Jules Hardouin-Mansart This massive building was built as a convalescence home for disabled war veterans. In...
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November 25, 2009Architect: Pierre Bullet Originally a Dominican monastery, the church of St Thomas Aquineas was built in nine months although the...
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November 25, 2009Architect: Louis Le Vau Originally built as a college for students from conquered states, the building included a public library...
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November 25, 2009Architect: Pierre Alexis Delamair Now used as the National Archives, this was originally built as a home for Francois de...
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November 25, 2009Architects: Lorenzo Giardine The Assemblée Nationale is a building with a varied history of ownership, redevelopment and differant purposes. In...
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June 30, 2010Architect: Jacques Gabriel & Jean Aubert The Hôtel Biron is an hôtel particulier, built by Jacques Gabriel and his associate...
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November 25, 2009Architect: Jacques Germain Soufflot The plans for this massive church were drawn up in 1757, and work started in 1764,...
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November 25, 2009Architect: P.L. Moreau, M.J. Peyre & C. deWailly Designed by Pierre Louis Moreau, who was the city architect, the Théâtre...
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November 25, 2009Architect: A.T. Brongniart & E. de Labarre Napoleon wanted the stock exchange to be housed to reflect “the grandeur of...
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November 25, 2009Architect: Jean François Thérèse Chalgrin 50 metres high and 45 metres wide, the Arc de Triomphe sits at the junction...
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November 25, 2009Architect: Jean Antoine Alavoine Previously the site of the Bastille, the fortress built by Charles V between 1370-82. This was...
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November 25, 2009Architect: Henri Labrouste Designed in 1839, and opened in 1851, the library was intended to contain the treasures of a...
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July 14, 2009Architect: M. Amoudru
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June 25, 2010As published in The Builder, November 14 1863.
