City of Architecture and Heritage This museum offers a tour of France’s most sensational buildings, from the middle ages to the present. It sits across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower in the eastern wing of the Chaillot Palace, which was built for the International Exhibition of 1937 and features full-scale casts of architectural features, copies of murals and frescoes and models of buildings. Architect Euge?ne Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) conceived the idea of a museum of comparative sculpture, focusing on French monuments, as a way of promoting knowledge and awareness of medieval architecture. His plaster casts were made all over France...