Tribunal de commerce de Paris

Following its demolition in 1791, the church had been replaced by entertainment venues, first the Théâtre de la Cité-Variétés and then the Prado ballroom.

That building and nearby houses, in turn, were demolished in 1858 for the complete remodeling of the middle section of the Île de la Cité, a major project of Haussmann's renovation of Paris.

The courthouse building for the Tribunal de Commerce was built between 1859 and 1865 on a design by architect Antoine-Nicolas Bailly, inspired by the Renaissance Palazzo della Loggia in Brescia.

[2] In the 1930s, it underwent a remodeling that transformed the atrium's ceiling and lower parts of the northern façade, but has otherwise been largely preserved in its original state.

[4] On the first floor, the main hearing room (French: grande salle d'audience) is decorated with busts of the court's founder Michel de l'Hôpital and of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, author of the ordonnance sur le commerce of 1673, and with historical paintings by Paul-Louis Delance and Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury.