Palais de Chaillot
On this Chaillot Hill site, the grand story begins with the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. For the event, the older 1878 Palais du Trocadéro was partly demolished and partly rebuilt to create the Palais de Chaillot. What survives from the earlier complex is telling: the palace’s large central hall and towers were demolished, leaving only the basement—then topped with a wide esplanade. That open terrace was designed to preserve a sightline from the Place du Trocadéro toward the Eiffel Tower and beyond, turning architecture into a deliberate panorama. The redesign is in a classicising “moderne” style by Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, Jacques Carlu, and Léon Azéma, with wings forming a wide arc. Decoration adds a literary and sculptural layer: quotations by Paul Valéry and attic groups by Raymond Delamarre, Carlo Sarrabezolles, and Alfred Bottiau. …
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