Palais de Chaillot
Palais de Chaillot rises on Chaillot Hill in Paris’s Trocadéro district, overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Two wings curve widely around an open esplanade above the former Palais du Trocadéro. Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, Jacques Carlu, and Léon Azéma shaped the building in a classicising modern style.
The architects rebuilt the complex for the 1937 International Exposition, retaining parts of the earlier palace within taller façades. Paul Valéry’s quotations and attic sculptures by Raymond Delamarre, Carlo Sarrabezolles, and Alfred Bottiau decorate the exterior. The Passy wing contains the Musée national de la Marine and the Musée de l’Homme, devoted to maritime history, prehistory, and anthropology. The Paris wing houses the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine and gives access to the Théâtre national de Chaillot below the esplanade.
The terrace hosted the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. Its broad view stretches from Place du Trocadéro towards the Eiffel Tower and beyond.
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