Halle aux blés (Paris)
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The Halle aux blés was a circular building in central Paris used by grain traders built in 1763–1767, with an open-air interior court that was capped by a wooden dome in 1783, then by an iron dome in
Hall in 1838, Medici column to its right
Vaulted attic of the exchange
Leeds Corn Exchange
:Hall's location in 1797
Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir
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Jean Charles Pierre Lenoir was a French lawyer who headed the Paris police in the period immediately before the French Revolution of 1789–99. He had broad responsibility for maintaining public order,
Halle aux blés (Paris)
…summit was 33 metres (108 ft) above ground level. The interior of the rotunda was decorated with medallion portraits of Louis XVI, police lieutenant Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir (1732–1807) and Philibert Delorme, inventor of the technique used to make the dome. During the French Revolution (1789–99) the medallions of the king…
Portrait of Lenoir engraved by Juste Chevillet after a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze