Palais du gouvernement de Nancy, Classical mansion on Place de la Carrière in Nancy, France
The Palais du Gouvernement is a long, symmetrical classical building on the Place de la Carrière, not the Place Stanislas. Its light grey facade has a rusticated ground floor with arched openings, a middle level with tall windows between columns and statues, and an upper level of small square windows under a balustrade. A gilded iron gate opens onto a paved courtyard.
Begun in 1715 as Duke Leopold I's "New Louvre" on the Place de la Carrière, the project by Germain Boffrand was abandoned after the death of the heir Leopold-Clément in 1723. The unfinished shell was demolished after 1739, and from 1751 to 1753 Emmanuel Héré built the present palace as the New Intendance for chancellor Antoine-Martin Chaumont de La Galaizière. It became a prefecture from 1823.
The palace owes its name to its use as the seat of Lorraine's intendants and later of the prefects of Meurthe from 1823. Sculptors Barthélemy Guibal and others carved the decoration; four seated women with children, by Guibal, sit in the entablature between the first and second floors. Since 2013 the building has housed an extension of the Musée lorrain.
The palace stands on the north side of Place de la Carrière, not Place Stanislas, with its garden and surviving false arcades of the unfinished Nouveau Louvre along the Musée lorrain. The gilded gate and courtyard are seen from the square; since 2013 part of the building has opened to the public as an extension of the Lorraine museum.
The palace stands on Place de la Carrière, not Place Stanislas, and its garden keeps the last traces of the unfinished "Nouveau Louvre": a few false arcades begun in 1715 for Duke Leopold I, visible along the Musée lorrain. The building itself was raised in 1751-1753 as the Nouvelle Intendance for chancellor Chaumont de La Galaizière.
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