Pavillon de Flore

Coordinates: 48°51′40″N 2°19′50″E / 48.86111°N 2.33056°E / 48.86111; 2.33056
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Pavillon de Flore in 2011. Carpeaux's sculpture Flore is centered under the pediment of the south (river) facade.
Palais du Louvre: the Pavillon de Flore is at the lower left, in red; the former Tuileries Palace
, on the left, in white; the 'old' quadrangular Louvre, on the right, in two shades of blue.

The Pavillon de Flore, part of the

Musée du Louvre
.

Location

The Pavillon de Flore is in central Paris, on the Right Bank (French: Rive Droite) and is connected to the Louvre. It is directly adjacent to the Pont Royal on the Quai François Mitterrand (formerly Quai du Louvre, renamed on October 26, 2003), which is between the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar Senghor and the Pont du Carrousel. Its geographic coordinates are 48°51′40″N 2°19′50″E / 48.86111°N 2.33056°E / 48.86111; 2.33056.

Metro access

Located near the
Tuileries
.
Located near the
Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre
.

History

17th century

South façade, engraving c. 1670 by Jean Marot
View of the Grande Galerie and pavilion in the 17th century

The Pavillon de Flore was part of a larger plan, known as the "Grand Design" (grand dessein) and devised during the reign of

Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau, who is also thought to have designed the adjacent western section of the Grande Galerie.[5]: 39–44  The Palais des Tuileries was duly extended south from its Pavillon Bullant to connect with the Pavillon de Flore, via the Petite Galerie des Tuileries. Further work on the Grand Design was abandoned following the assassination of Henry IV in 1610.[1] By that time, the building of the Grande Galerie, the Gros Pavillon de la Rivière, and the Petite Galerie des Tuileries had been substantially completed.[3][6]

King Louis XIV organized yearly ballets, and in early 1669 insisted on a particularly magnificent one to be held in the Pavillon's Grand Salon. The seasons-themed spectacle, titled Ballet de Flore, was a joint creation of scenic designer Carlo Vigarani, costume designer Henri de Gissey, libretto author Isaac de Benserade, and music composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. It was first danced on 13 February 1669, with the king himself taking a dancing role, with repeat representations in the following weeks.[2]: 16-20  The memory of that Flore Ballet show appears to have lingered in the building's name, even though the earliest known written mention is in 1726.[2]: 20  A similar lingering memory, of Louis XIV's great carrousel show of 1662, remains in the name of the Place du Carrousel, which first appears in written sources in 1714.[2]: 20 

18th century

The Pavillon's Grand Salon was converted into apartments in 1716, shortly after Louis XIV's death.[2]: 22 

From 1789 until 1792, when the French royal court resided in the Tuileries, the apartment of the ground floor of the Pavillon de Flore housed the office of the

Madame Elisabeth.[7]

During the French Revolution, the Pavillon de Flore was renamed Pavillon de l'Égalité (House of Equality).[8] Under its new name, it became the meeting point for several of the Committees of the period.[9] Many other committees of the Revolutionary Government occupied the Palais des Tuileries (referred to by contemporaries as the Palace of the Nation) during the time of the National Convention. Notable occupiers included the Monetary Committee, the Account and Liquidation Examination Committee. However, the most famous was the Committee of Public Safety.[10]

The

Louis XVI.[9]
The governing body met twice a day and the executions themselves were carried out across the gardens.

19th century

Le Triomphe de Flore

Napoléon I's coronation as Emperor of the French, arriving ahead of the ceremony on 2 December 1804 and staying until April 1805.[11] While residing there, the Pope received various "bodies of the State, the clergy, and the religious corporations." Additionally, Emperor Napoléon's procession began at the Pavillon de Flore.[12]

The pavilion underwent significant structural alteration during the reign of

Napoleon III style architecture.[14][11] Furthermore, Napoléon III commissioned sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux to create a piece that would evoke "Flore" (in English Flora), the Roman goddess who represents flowers and spring.[15]

The structure formed the corner edifice of a combined Louvre Palace and Tuileries Palace complex until the Palais des Tuileries was destroyed during the Paris Commune insurrection in 1871.[16] On May 23, 1871, incendiary fires set by twelve members of the revolutionary Paris Commune inflicted severe damage to the Tuileries.[13]: 129 [17] The Pavillon de Flore, which was less damaged than the rest of the palace, was restored by Lefuel between 1874 and 1879 with a brand-new north façade. The second floor again caught fire in October 1880 and was subsequently restored. The nearby ruins of the Tuileries Palace were eventually pulled down in 1882 during the French Third Republic. As a consequence, the Pavillon de Flore and the Pavillon de Marsan are the only portions of the Tuileries complex still in existence. Since the Tuileries' axis was not aligned with the rest of the Louvre including the Grande Galerie, the Pavillon de Flore remains at a slight angle (6.33°) to the immediately adjacent wing.

After the Paris City Hall was also arsoned at the end of the Commune in May 1871, the Municipal Council of Paris and Prefect of the Seine first moved to the Luxembourg Palace across the Seine, but they had to leave that building in 1878 as the French Senate prepared to move back from their previous temporary location in the Palace of Versailles, and relocated for several years in the aile de Flore of the Louvre.[18]: 36 [19]: 106  The new City Hall was formally inaugurated on 13 July 1882 but it took significantly longer to finish the interior works, with some ceremonial rooms only completed in 1906.[20] While in the Louvre the Municipal Council's meetings were held in Napoleon III's unfinished Salle des Etats of the Pavillon des Sessions, from 1878 to 1883. The Bibliothèque de l'hôtel de ville de Paris [fr] left the Louvre in 1887 to its current City Hall location. The offices of the Prefecture and apartment of Préfet Eugène Poubelle remained in the Pavillon de Flore until 1893, when they were replaced by the Ministry of Colonies, despite a 1883 order (décret) that had transferred the entire aile de Flore to the museum.[21]

  • View from across the Pont Royal, drawing in brown ink (1814)
    View from across the Pont Royal, drawing in brown ink (1814)
  • Pavillon de Flore and western part of the Grande Galerie in the 1830s, lithograph by Thomas Shotter Boys
    Pavillon de Flore and western part of the
    lithograph by Thomas Shotter Boys
  • South façade in 1861 just before demolition and reconstruction, photograph by Édouard Baldus
    South façade in 1861 just before demolition and reconstruction, photograph by Édouard Baldus
  • The fire at the Pavillon de Flore, 2 October 1880
    The fire at the Pavillon de Flore, 2 October 1880
  • The Florist and the Pavillon de Flore (Émile Baré, late 19C)
    The Florist and the Pavillon de Flore (Émile Baré, late 19C)

20th century

The

Ministry of Colonies was installed in the Flore Wing from 1893 to 1909.[22][23]: 65  The museum then planned to expand into the Flore Wing but that was thwarted during World War I as the facility was used by the wartime bond issuance service.[19]: 108  The Finance Ministry, together with the National Lottery [fr] it created in 1933, remained there and stayed until 1961. In 1961, the Finance Ministry accepted to leave the Pavillon de Flore at the southwestern end of the Louvre building, as Verne had recommended in his 1920s plan. New exhibition spaces of sculptures (ground floor) and paintings (first floor) opened there later in the 1960s, on a design by government architect Olivier Lahalle.[24]

The Laboratoire du département des peintures du Musée du Louvre was created in 1932 to support research on paintings and leverage new analysis techniques. In 1968 it became the Laboratoire de recherche des Musées de France, with a national mandate but still located at the Louvre. In 1998, this laboratory merged with the Service de restauration des Musées de France to form the

Center for Research and Restoration of Museums of France
(C2RMF), located in the Pavillon de Flore.

21st century

Several tied cottages still exist in the Pavillon de Flore, including one for the museum's Director.[25]: 721  Other apartments in the same pavilion are reserved for senior personnel tasked with the museum's security and maintenance, so that they stay close in case their presence is needed for an emergency.[25]: 552 

Sculpture

Southern facade

Carpeaux's Imperial France (above the pediment) and Triumph of Flora (below)

In addition to the celebrated Triumph of Flora and above it,

San Lorenzo, Florence. Carpeaux received the commission for that group in 1863, presented the model in May 1865, and executed the sculpture in stone in 1865-1866.[26][27]

Sphinges of Sebastopol

Western sphinx in 2011
Eastern sphinx in late 2021

Immediately to the pavilion's west are two monumental

Hector Lefuel placed them on the sides of the entrance to the private garden of the Tuileries Palace, now part of the Tuileries Garden.[28] In 1877, the western sphinx was moved farther west when that entrance was replaced by the wider rue des Tuileries, now named after General Émile Lemonnier. It bears impacts of shots fired during the Liberation of Paris in August 1944.[29] The eastern sphinx was warehoused in 1986 during the remodeling of the avenue,[30]
and reinstalled in August 2021.

These sphinges inspired John Hay's The Sphinx of the Tuileries, an anti-Napoleon III poem written during his stay in Paris between 1865 and 1867.[31]

See also

Notes

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Christiane Aulanier (1971). Le Pavillon de Flore (PDF). Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux.
  3. ^ a b Wilhelm Lübke (1904). Outlines of the History of Art. Dodd,Mead, and company. p. 337. pavillon de flore structure building history.
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  6. ^ Daniel Coit Gilman; Harry Thurston Peck; Frank Moore Colby (1906). The New International Encyclopaedia. Dodd, Mead and company. p. 622.
  7. ^ Hardy, B. C. (Blanche Christabel), The Princesse de Lamballe; a biography, 1908, Project Gutenberg
  8. ^ Eugène Hatin (1860). Histoire politique et littéraire de la presse en France avec une introduction historique sur les origines du journal et de la bibliographie générale des jounaux depuis leur origine (in French). Vol. 6. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise libraires-éditeurs. p. 151.
  9. ^ a b Francis Miltoun (1910). Royal Palaces and Parks of France. L.C. Page & Co. pp. 114, 115. pavillon de flore committee.
  10. ^ John Morley (1908). Critical Miscellanies. Macmillan. p. 67. pavillon de flore committee.
  11. ^ a b Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1887). Paris. G.Allen. p. 20. pavillon de flore louis xiv.
  12. ^ Claude-François Méneval; Robert Harborough Sherard (1894). Memoirs Illustrating the History of Napoléon I from 1802 to 1815. D. Appleton and Company. p. 329. history of the pavillon de flore.
  13. ^ a b Yvan Christ (1949). Le Louvre et les Tuileries : histoire architecturale d'un double palais. Paris: Éditions Tel.
  14. ^ Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1885). Paris in old and present times. Seeley. p. 38. pavillon de flore louis xiv.
  15. ^ "Official Site of the Louvre" (in French). The Louvre. 1873. p. 1. Retrieved 2007-12-19. ...de la face sud du pavillon de Flore reconstruit par Lefuel en 1863 - 1865. Le thème évoque le nom du pavillon...
  16. ^ * Truslove, Roland (1911). "Paris" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 805–822, see page 808. The palace itself was burnt by the Communists in 1871, with the exception of the terminal pavilion on the south (Pavillon de Flore)...
  17. ^ Francis W. Halsey (1914). Seeing Europe with Famous Authors: Volume III - France & the Netherlands - page 19. New York, London: Funk & Wagnalls.
  18. ^ Henri Verne (1923). Le Palais du Louvre: Comment l'ont terminé Louis XIV, Napoléon Ier et Napoléon III. Paris: Editions Albert Morancé.
  19. ^ a b Louis Hautecoeur, Louis (1928). Histoire du Louvre: Le Château – Le Palais – Le Musée, des origines à nos jours, 1200–1928. Paris: L'Illustration.
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  21. ^ "Recueil général des lois et des arrêts : En matière civile, criminelle, commerciale et de droit public... / Par J.-B. Sirey". 1889.
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  24. ^ Pierre Mazars (18 November 1964). "1964 : Le Louvre sera le plus beau musée du monde". Le Figaro.
  25. ^ a b Pierre Rosenberg (2007). Dictionnaire amoureux du Louvre. Paris: Plon.
  26. ^ "Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 - 1875) : La France impériale portant la lumière dans le monde et protégeant les Sciences, l'Agriculture et l'Industrie". Musée d'Orsay.
  27. ^ Nathalie Gathelier (12 March 2019). "Tombeaux des Médicis". Panorama de l'Art.
  28. ^ "Sphinge (deux)". A Nos Grands Hommes / Musée d'Orsay.
  29. ^ "Sphinge - Date de création/fabrication : 1845 - 1845". Louvre. 1845.
  30. ^ "Où sont les sphinges ?". Paris-bise-art. 24 June 2020.
  31. ^ "The Sphinx of the Tuileries". DayPoems.

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