Le bâtiment Perret / The Perret Building

After 1945, Auguste Perret built three new stories of studios around the Melpomène room. He also converted a hallway with sky-lighting that connected it to the hotel de Chimay. The section opening onto the hotel de Chimay was decorated in the 1940s style: ochre marble on the walls, sconces, black and white checkerboard patterned flooring. A plaster copy of a sculpture of Voltaire dressed in Antique garb, by Houdon (1778)-the original is located in the entry hall of the Comédie Française theater- was placed there, as was Eugène-Louis Lequesne's (1815-1887) copy of the Barberini Faun, which won the Prix de Rome in 1844, at the occasion of his Envoi from Rome in 1846 (the original is at the Munich Glyptotek).