Built in 1765 in the heart of the Marais on the site of the old Hôtel de Soissons by Le Camus de Mézières, the Corn Hall (Halle au blé) was a circular construction enclosing a open courtyard. The first wooden dome was destoyed in a fire in 1802, and so Bélanger designed a metal dome which was built over the period 1807 to 1813 using 765 coffers cast by the Creusot manufacture. Although greatly admired at the time, the building was demolished in 1885.
The Corn Hall
