Great Palace
The Grand Palais—often called the Great Palace—is built for spectacle as much as for art. Its construction began in 1897, after the demolition of the Palais de l’Industrie, specifically to prepare for the Universal Exposition of 1900—an event that also brought the adjacent Petit Palais and Pont Alexandre III into being. The decision to stage the exposition triggered sharp debate inside the French Republic, and even the Grand Palais was planned amid those political tensions. On 22 April 1896, the contract for the project was awarded to four architects—Henri Deglane, Albert Louvet, Albert Thomas, and Charles Girault—each assigned a different area of responsibility. Designed in Beaux-Arts tastes, the building was meant as a national stage for “a monument dedicated by the Republic to the glory of French art,” carried on a pediment inscription. …
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