The Pavillon de Flore anchors the western end of the Louvre, identified by its ornate stone facade and the way it stretches toward the Seine. Napoleon the Third ordered its complete reconstruction in the eighteen sixties to finally join the palace to the Tuileries garden. Hector Lefuel handled the massive project, but he faced constant pressure from an emperor demanding speed. When the Tuileries Palace burned in eighteen seventy-one, this pavilion survived, left standing as the lonely, surviving anchor of the king's lost residence.
Pavillon de Flore
monument
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