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| Keywords: Galerie d'Orléans en 1840.jpg Artwork Located in the Palais Royal the Galerie d'Orléans was built in 1829 in place of the Galeries de Bois and extended across the interior court of the Palais Its cover consisted of a glass roof shown here and it was said to be the most architecturally spectacular of all of the arcades at the time However due to its relatively poor location and competition with other arcades the Galerie d'Orléans was one of the least successful arcades of the nineteenth century It was partially demolished in 1935 in an attempt to restore life to the Palais-Royal leaving an open courtyard in the first arrondissement 1875-1882 lithograph 9 1 x 13 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Published in Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer Paris à travers les âges Paris Firmin-Didot et cie 1885 accession number 1189456001734375 PD-old Lithographs of Paris Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Paris à travers les âges Galerie d'Orléans Paris 1840 in Paris | ||||
