Chateau de Compiegne: ground floor plan

NOTES: This drawing is one of a number included in C. R. Cockerell's album of house studies entitled 'Ichnographia Domestica', which was compiled in 1825 with later insertions. Construction on this chateau, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel as a summer royal residence for King Louis XV and one of the three seats of royal government, began in 1751. Work was continued after Gabriel's death by his pupil, Le Dreux de La Chatre, and was completed in 1788. It was restored by Napoleon I.