Started in 1865 under the orders of the architect Reimbeau, finished in 1868 by the architect Jean Baptiste Couty, built in the middle of the Napoleon III era, it was intended to face the Macdonald district and centered on the avenue de La Marck.
Louis XIII-inspired building, it combines: the stone boss, the cartouche and the Louis XIII attic oculus, a central Renaissance-style sitting dog, a Louis XIV roof, broken à la JA Mansard and a Paladianist staircase with distribution central. It was successively seat of the General Staff, residence of the Imperial Prince, the Emperor Napoleon III and the Deputy Prefects. Napoleon III spent 3 nights there and left at dawn on September 2, 1870 to go and sign the act of surrender of his army at the Château de Bellevue and surrender himself prisoner.
Louis XIII-inspired building, it combines: the stone boss, the cartouche and the Louis XIII attic oculus, a central Renaissance-style sitting dog, a Louis XIV roof, broken à la JA Mansard and a Paladianist staircase with distribution central. It was successively seat of the General Staff, residence of the Imperial Prince, the Emperor Napoleon III and the Deputy Prefects. Napoleon III spent 3 nights there and left at dawn on September 2, 1870 to go and sign the act of surrender of his army at the Château de Bellevue and surrender himself prisoner.
