Plate 11. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_du_Louvre" class="extiw" title="en:Palais du Louvre">Louvre</a> in Paris: elevation of the south facade facing the river.  From <i>Architecture françoise</i>, Tome 4, Livre 6. For Blondel's discussion of this plate (in French), see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1080359/f73.image.r=.langEN">p. 54 of tome 4</a> (at Gallica). According to Robert Berger, this south facade, which replaced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Le_Vau" class="extiw" title="en:Louis Le Vau">Louis Le Vau</a>'s previous facade of 1660–1663 (see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louvre_-_Ancienne_fa%C3%A7ade_du_c%C3%B4t%C3%A9_de_la_rivi%C3%A8re_ex%C3%A9cut%C3%A9e_sur_le_dessein_de_Le_Veau_-_Architecture_fran%C3%A7oise_Tome4_Livre6_Pl13.jpg" title="File:Louvre - Ancienne façade du côté de la rivière exécutée sur le dessein de Le Veau - Architecture françoise Tome4 Livre6 Pl13.jpg">plate 13</a>), was probably initially designed by Le Vau (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Le_Brun" class="extiw" title="en:Charles Le Brun">Charles Le Brun</a> may have also played a role), but was completed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Perrault" class="extiw" title="en:Claude Perrault">Claude Perrault</a> with modifications to make it more consistent with the east facade (see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louvre_-_%C3%89l%C3%A9vation_de_la_principale_facade_au_c%C3%B4t%C3%A9_de_Saint-Germain-l%27Auxerrois_-_Architecture_fran%C3%A7oise_Tome4_Livre6_Pl7.jpg" title="File:Louvre - Élévation de la principale facade au côté de Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois - Architecture françoise Tome4 Livre6 Pl7.jpg">plate 7</a>).
<ul><li>Berger, Robert W. (1993). <i>The Palace of the Sun: The Louvre of Louis XIV</i>. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780271008479" title="Special:BookSources/9780271008479">ISBN 9780271008479</a>.</li></ul>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Claude_Perrault" class="extiw" title="w:en:Claude Perrault"><span title="French architect and doctor of medicine">Claude Perrault</span></a>
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circa 1668 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1668-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div> (design and construction)<br>1756 (publication of the plate in Blondel's <i>Architecture françoise</i>)
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