Taking rue de Valois to exit the palace and leaving the facade of Anne of Austria behind, make a detour by the current Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Galerie Véro-Dodat, that you can find while crossing the Valois square and continuing on rue Montesquieu.

The ancient building of "Bons Enfants", now the Ministry of Culture and Communication, transformed by the architect Francis Soler in 2004-2005, is on your right. A huge stainless steel net covers two buildings like an armor; one from the eighties and one from the twenties. The megastructure presents arabesques hiding and revealing the buildings, somewhat reminiscent of the Art Nouveau style by Hector Guimard, who revolutionized architecture in 1900. Francis Soler did indeed make a bold architectural statement in an area marked by the French Revolution. Architectural messages should display both tradition and modernity, show evidence of Arts related to time and space. Nobody would suspect that this structure is the transposition of an Italian Late Renaissance fresco that the architect had admired in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Italy. It is in fact a work of Giulio Romano, The Banquet of the Gods in the room of Psyche, copied and then distorted on a computer. Subsequently, the manipulated image was printed on steel plates and laser-cut before being mounted on the facades of both buildings. The building of the Ministry of Culture and Communication pays tribute to painting, sculpture and architecture. It embodies artwork that is material and conceptual, figurative and abstract.

After the facade was covered, the family of the architect who contributed to this building  in the 1920s, filed a complaint for the distortion of the original facade. Francis Soler was sentenced to a compensation of one symbolic euro. Francis Soler's work merged the two buildings to create a unique place where the steel grid protects and hides, reveals and conceals giving life and rejuvenating, not just the facade, but also an entire neighborhood.