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Updated: April 30, 2025
The facade of this colonnade, which is of the Corinthian order; is five hundred and twenty-five feet in length: it is divided into two peristyles and three avant-corps.
Towards the Pont St. Michel is a continuation of the building ornamented with a bas-relief, at present denominated Le serment civique. At the top of a flight of steps, is an avant-corps, with four Doric columns, a balustrade above the entablature, four statues standing on a level with the base of the pillars, and behind, a square dome.
The other two avant-corps are ornamented by six pilasters, and two columns of the same order, and disposed in the same manner. On the top, in lieu of a ridged roof, is a terrace, bordered by a stone balustrade, the pedestals of which are intended to bear trophies intermixed with vases. PERRAULT'S enemies disputed with him the invention of this master-piece.
Perpendicularly to the six pillars, rise six statues, representing Peace, Commerce, Prudence, Law, Strength, and Plenty. In this avant-corps are three arches, the centre one of which is the principal entrance of the building.
In the principal apartment of the avant-corps of the Hotel de la Monnaie, towards the Quai de Conti, is the cabinet known in Paris by the name of the This cabinet or Museum was formed in 1778 by M. SAGE, who had then spent eighteen years in collecting minerals.
Here, two elegant wings present themselves, decorated with pilasters, also of the Doric and Ionic orders, which are likewise employed for the pillars of the avant-corps in the centre. This avant-corps is pierced with three arches, which serve as a passage into the second court, and correspond with the three gates before-mentioned.
The principal gate is in the centre avant-corps, which is decorated with eight double columns, crowned by a pediment, whose raking cornices are composed of two stones only, each fifty-four feet in length by eight in breadth, though no more than eighteen inches in thickness. They were taken from the quarries of Meudon, and formed but one single block, which was sawed into two.
I do not recollect any building of the kind in Europe that can be compared to it, since it far surpasses the Zecca at Venice. An avant-corps, decorated with six Ionic pillars, and supported by two wings, from the division of the facade, which is three hundred and thirty-six feet in breadth by eighty-four in elevation. It is distributed into two stories above the ground-floor.
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