Pavillon de Marsan

On its south side, the Pavillon de Marsan was connected to Le Vau's pavilion for the stage of the Théâtre des Tuileries, completed in 1661.

Lefuel, who disliked the giant order as a matter of principle and found it unsuitable for the Louvre, went on to reconstruct the North Wing on a slightly broadened footprint, but works to that end stopped around the time of his death in 1880.

A project to locate the Cour des Comptes in the Pavillon de Marsan was stillborn, even though the building was used in the late 19th century to store archives of that institution.

[5] In 1897 the Pavillon and Aile de Marsan were eventually given over to the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, which remodeled it from 1898 to 1905 under designs by Gaston Redon assisted by Paul Lorain.

[8] Further east are a series of eight pediments with allegorical sculptures, namely Astronomy (by Gabriel Thomas); Accounting (above Science and Art,[9]: 303  by Pierre-Jules Cavelier); Architecture (above Masonry and Ironwork, by Louis-Ernest Barrias); Plenty (above Wheat Harvest and Grape Harvest, by Mathurin Moreau); Legislation (above Charlemagne and Moses, by Hélène Bertaux); the birth of Venus (above Sea and Wind, by Henri-Charles Maniglier);[citation needed] unidentified theme (above Mercury and Hercules, by Amédée Donatien Doublemard);[citation needed] and Peace (by Frédéric-Louis-Désiré Bogino [fr]).