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The Louvre's pavillon de l'Horloge, refaced in the 1850s at the eastern end of the Nouveau Louvre. The expansion of the Louvre under Napoleon III in the 1850s, known at the time and until the 1980s as the Nouveau Louvre [1] [2] [3] or Louvre de Napoléon III, [4] was an iconic project of the Second French Empire and a centerpiece of its ambitious transformation of Paris. [5]
Beginning in 1853, under Napoleon III, the corridor was turned into a library and most of the paintings were removed, with the exception of a large portrait of Henry IV on horseback by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse. The large globe near the entrance of the gallery, placed there in 1861, came from the office of Napoleon in the Tuileries Palace. [60]
Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first president, second emperor, and last monarch of France. Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
North wing of Louvre facing main courtyard. The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.
This category covers the houses and palaces occupied to a significant extent by Napoleon I of France. His final resting place is in the church of Les Invalides in Paris . Pages in category "Palaces and residences of Napoleon"
The third phase of renovations was proposed in 1867 and approved in 1869, but it faced much more opposition than the earlier phases. Napoleon III had decided to liberalize his empire in 1860, and to give a greater voice to the parliament and to the opposition.
The Palais du Pharo (French pronunciation: [palɛ dy faʁo]) is a palace in Marseille, Southern France, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Old Port (Vieux-Port). It was built in Second Empire style by Emperor Napoleon III for Empress Eugénie, starting in 1858.
The palace was built between 1861 and 1864 by Jacques-Martin Tétaz in the objective to become stables for Napoleon III, as well as house their personnel. In 1881, it became a dependency of the presidency under the Third Republic. Then in 1947, it housed the French meteorology office. [1]