Palace of the King of Rome

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The palace of the king of Rome is the designation of two buildings intended to become residences of the king of Rome, son of the emperor Napoleon I: a huge palace, projected by the emperor in Paris on the hill of Chaillot, dominating the bridge of Jena, which has never been born, and a small palace, built in Rambouillet from the former government hotel, former home of the Count of Angiviller, superintendent general of the buildings of King Louis XVI. In February 1811, before the birth of his son, Napoleon I decided to build the palace of the hill of Chaillot and named it "the palace of the king of Rome". Grandiose and magnificent, it was to be the center of an imperial administrative and military city.

Victim of the first fruits and then of the fall of the Empire, the palace of the hill of Chaillot, ghost palace of a ghost heir, never lives. He was to be, however, by the very admission of his designer, the architect Pierre Fontaine, "the largest and most extraordinary work of our century". The small palace of Rambouillet, originally planned for secondary use, rebuilt by Auguste Famin as can be seen today (with the exception of the pavilion called Pavillon...