Palais de la Légion d'Honneur

The Hôtel de Salm (today Palais de la Légion d' honneur, dt " Palace of the Legion of Honour " ) is the headquarters and museum of the French Legion of Honor and Knights. It is located on the left bank of the Seine in Paris between the Quai Anatole -France and Rue de Lille, west of the Musée d' Orsay.

History

The Hôtel de Salm 1782-1787 by the architect Pierre Rousseau ( 1751-1829 ) and Antoine -François Peyre for Prince Frederick III. Johann Otto Salm- Kyrburg ( 1745-1794 ). The Parisian residence of the family of Salm- Kyrburg was soon a meeting of the high noble patricians of pre-revolutionary France (Club de Salm ). At the time of the Revolution the building was nationalized and received his new, final name and function on 13 May 1804 as the headquarters for the Legion of Honor was founded in 1802.

1866 was built along the newly created Rue de Solferino, an extension, but this was destroyed in 1871 during the Paris Commune by fire. Shortly thereafter, he was reconstructed with the assistance of famous artists such as the painter Jean -Paul Laurens. From 1922 to 1925, a further extension along the Rue de Bellechasse was created for the Museum of the Legion of Honour ( Musée national de la Légion d' honneur et des ordres de chevalerie ).

Influence

The Hôtel de Salm found many imitators. The 1924 completed Museum California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco is a replica of the Hôtel de Salm. Another copy is for the banker Julius Porges in Rochefort -en- Yvelines, near Paris called Chateau de Rochefort en Yvelines. In the Dutch Haarlem the banker Henry Hope had built the country house Welgelegen modeled after the Hôtel de Salm. Thomas Jefferson also grew fond of the Hôtel de Salm, leaving the villa of his country estate, Monticello at Charlottesville, Virginia to build its model.