Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Palais de justice
La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Palais de justice : inscription par arrêté du 14 mai 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/05/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- palais de justice
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle, 4e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1614, 1783, 1789
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Address
- Palais (rue du)
- Commune
- La Rochelle
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.15983, -1.15392
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105143
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Façade ornée, en partie centrale, de six hautes colonnes corinthiennes supportant l'entablement sculpté d'une frise de rinceaux. Au-dessus, un écusson contient les attributs de la Justice. A l'intérieur, un couloir d'entrée en briques à chainages de pierre avec, de chaque côté, une porte à fronton brisé, et, au premier étage, la porte de corridor de la salle d'audiences, sont les vestiges du premier palais construit sous Henri IV et terminé en 1614.
English translation
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History
Façade ornamented, in the central part, with six tall Corinthian columns supporting the entablature carved with a frieze of scrollwork. Above, a shield contains the attributes of Justice. Inside, an entrance corridor in brick with stone quoins with, on each side, a door with broken pediment, and, on the first floor, the corridor door of the audience hall, are the vestiges of the first palace built under Henri IV and completed in 1614.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.