Statue of Pierre-Antoine Berryer, 1790-1868, French lawyer, flanked by figures of Justice and Eloquence, 1879, by Henri Chapu, 1833-91, in the Salle des Pas Perdus, or Hall of Lost Causes, an enormous vestibule leading to the courthouses, in the Palais de Justice or Paris Law Courts, on the Ile de la Cite, Paris, France. Berryer was a royalist but nevertheless defended the 1848 revolutionaries. The former royal palace was originally a medieval building, reworked and rebuilt several times, with a major reconstruction 1857-68 by architects Joseph-Louis Duc and Honore Daumet under Haussmann. The complex includes the Palais de Justice, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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