The Chapel:

The church of the Petits-Augustins convent is the oldest part of the Ecole des beaux-arts. The hexagonal chapel, on the right at the far end of the single nave, is known as the "chapelle des louanges" ("chapel of praise"). It was built from 1617 on for Marguerite de Navarre (1553-1615), the divorced wife of Henri IV.
When most of the museum collection left the premises and the chapel became the property of the Ecole des beaux-arts, it was first used as storage space for casts and sculptures and later as a museum housing copies of Italian and French Renaissance works - casts and paintings sent by Prix de Rome prizewinners, including the large of copy of Michelangelo's Last Judgment made in Rome in 1833 by Xavier Sigalon (1788-1837).