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The work of restoring the very dilapidated building and its decoration started in 1880 under the direction of the architect Edmond Guillaume. He built a doric aedicule comprising 2 marble columns taken from the domes grove in Versailles' palace park, surmounted by a bronze cock by Auguste Cain to house the marble statue of Sylvain Bailly by René de Saint-Marceaux.