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The Palais de la Légion d'honneur (

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for "Palace of the Legion of Honour") is a historic building on the

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of the

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. It houses the

Musée de la Légion d'honneur The Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie ( French for "National museum of the Legion of Honour and of orders of chivalry") is a French national museum of orders of merit and orders of chivalry. It is located in th ...

("Museum of the Legion of Honour") and is the seat of the

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, the highest French

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. The building is also known as the Hôtel de Salm. It is located at 64 rue de Lille, next to the old Orsay railway station (now the

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) in the

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History

The original Hôtel de Salm was constructed between 1782 and 1787 by the architect Pierre Rousseau (1751–1810) for the German prince Frederick III, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg. The revolutionary government nationalised the building, and from 13 May 1804, it was renamed the "Palais de la Légion d'honneur" and became the seat of the newly created

. The interior was remodeled for that purpose by

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, and new exterior sculptures were added by Jean Guillaume Moitte and Philippe-Laurent Roland. An additional building was added in 1866 along the then-new rue de Solférino, but the palace was burned in 1871 by the

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. A replica was rebuilt soon afterwards under

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, with painters Jean-Paul Laurens and

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providing interior decoration. An additional building was added from 1922–1925 on rue de Bellechasse in order to house a museum of the Légion d'honneur.

Influences

The

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, a three-quarter scale replica of the Hôtel de Salm, was constructed in

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in 1924; it houses a fine arts museum. In

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in the Netherlands, the banker

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had his

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built to resemble the Hôtel de Salm. In Rochefort-en-Yvelines (near Paris), there is a larger-scale replica of the Hôtel de Salm. It was built between 1899 and 1904 for the wealthy business magnate Jules Porgès by the architect Charles Mewès, and it is known as the ; today, it is a golf club. The architect John Nash included a domed semi-circular bow in his design for the garden front at

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, inspired by the Hôtel de Salm.

References

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