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11-574: Palais Rohan may refer to: Palais Rohan, Bordeaux Palais Rohan, Strasbourg Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Palais Rohan . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palais_Rohan&oldid=545077073 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

22-577: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Palais Rohan, Bordeaux The Palais Rohan is the Hôtel de Ville, or City Hall , of Bordeaux , France. The building was constructed in the 18th century, originally serving as the Archbishop's Palace of Bordeaux. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1997. In 1771,

33-553: Is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections include paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15th century to the 20th century. The largest collection is composed of paintings, and its strong points are works by French , Flemish painters and Dutch painters . In front of the building, there is the Galerie des Beaux-Arts , where temporary exhibitions are housed. Established in 1801 by

44-408: The neoclassical style , built in ashlar stone, and was completed in 1778. The layout involved a three-storey main building at the back of a courtyard, with single-storey wings on either side and an arcaded screen at the front. The main building had 15 bays, with the last two bays on either side slightly projected forward. The ground floor was rusticated . The central section of three bays, which

55-465: The Hôtel de Ville for Bordeaux in 1835. The building was badly damaged during a fire, in which the municipal archives were destroyed, on 13 June 1862. In the late 1870s, two new wings, intended to accommodate the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux , were constructed behind the main building to a design by Charles Burguet. The rebuilding after the fire involved a new council chamber, completed in 1889, which

66-402: The ground floor of the building, but caused no casualties. On 23 March 2023, the building was set on fire by protesters during the pension reform strikes . The front door was affected, though the fire was put out promptly by firefighters. Mus%C3%A9e des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine-art museum of the city of Bordeaux , France. The museum

77-454: The new Archbishop of Bordeaux, Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan , decided to commission a new building to replace the old medieval archbishop's residence, which occupied the western part of the grounds of Bordeaux Cathedral . The new building would be a typical hôtel particulier with a grand portal, a grand courtyard and two ornate façades. The new building was designed, initially by Joseph Étienne, and later by Richard-François Bonfin, in

88-656: The painter Pierre Lacour , it is one of the largest art galleries in France outside Paris. The museum holds several paintings that were looted by the French during the French Revolution (the saisies révolutionnaires ) such as the Martyrdom of Saint Georges by Peter Paul Rubens . First hosted in a library and then in a room of the town hall, the collection was moved into the current building after its construction from 1875 to 1881. The Galerie des Beaux-Arts

99-491: The principal rooms were the main reception rooms, which were decorated by motifs created by the sculptor Barthélemy Cabirol. The staircase is regarded as an important example of stereotomy . After the French Revolution in 1791, the building housed the Gironde department prefecture. It became an imperial palace for Napoleon in 1808 and a royal residence for Louis XVIII in 1815. It was then converted for municipal use as

110-411: Was also slightly projected forward, featured three rounded openings on the ground floor. The building was fenestrated by square headed windows on all three floors. All bays were flanked by Ionic order pilasters supporting an entablature , a modillioned cornice and a balustraded parapet . There was a segmental shaped pediment above the central section with a clock in the tympanum . Internally,

121-577: Was designed in a style characteristic of official architecture during the Third Republic. On the night of October 5 to 6, 1996, during the tenure of Alain Juppé as both Mayor of Bordeaux and Prime Minister of France , a bomb exploded under the windows of the mayor's office, next to the garden. The attack was claimed the next day by the Corsican group FLNC-Canal Historique . The explosion damaged

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