The Cour d'honneur at the rue Bonaparte (entrance):

The main entrance and the two courtyards leading up to the Palais des Etudes were designed by Duban in 1836 to set off the Palais which was being completed.
A triumphal column with a Corinthian capital marks the center of the first courtyard. The bronze angel which it originally supported is now in the vestibule of the chapel.
The various pieces of sculpture in the arcades opposite the chapel were not part of the French monument museum collection, but came from the Hôtel Legendre, which was built in the rue des Bourdonnais in the late 15th century and early 16th, and was decorated in a style typical of the beginnings of the Renaissance in France.