this where to has something theatrical about it crossing its almost three hundred meters one comes quite suddenly upon the circular colonnade of the little any seek its appearance is all the more surprising because it is invisible from the triumphal arch. the emmy seat acts as a food court for the monumental. which is a kind of counterpart to the city hall at the opposite end of the axis. this was where the person with the real power resided a royal intendant who saw to it that all the business of government was executed in the interests of france he had the duke opposite constantly in his sights and would remind him every so often of his political importance. once