Château de Compiègne was rebuilt for Louis XV after Ange-Jacques Gabriel proposed the 1750 renovation, and his student Le Dreux de La Châtre completed the work. The work ran from 1751 to 1788. The page has no infobox, and the first royal residence on the site dates to 1374.
The article calls the style Neoclassical, with simplicity and clarity inside and out, and says the Napoleonic restoration of 1808 to 1810 produced Empire style. It names no materials. It covers about 5 acres (20,000 square meters) on a triangular plan that followed the old town ramparts.
The building was essentially gutted in 1795. Napoleon ordered it made habitable in 1807, and Napoleon III and Eugénie used it as an autumn residence from 1856. It holds three museums. The article gives no hours.
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