The Empire period was popularized by the inventive designs of Percier and Fontaine, Napoleon's architects for Malmaison.
In 1795, he was admitted to the architectural studio, a virtual academy, of Percier and Fontaine in Paris.
La Fontaine | Jean de La Fontaine | Brigitte Fontaine | Joan Fontaine | Matthew Fontaine Maury | Richmond Fontaine | Claudia Fontaine | Smokey Fontaine | Percier and Fontaine | Jean de la Fontaine | Woodruff-Fontaine House | Limont-Fontaine | Henri La Fontaine | Fontaine-lès-Dijon | Fontaine Fox | Fontaine | Doué-la-Fontaine | Charles Percier | Walter F. Fontaine | Valentina Allegra de Fontaine | Steff Fontaine | Sculptures of the ''Fontaine Desaix'', ca. 1802, originally in the Place Dauphine | Paul Fontaine | Matthew Fontaine Maury High School | Jean-Marc Fontaine | Jean de la Fontaine. | Gabriel Fontaine | Fontaine-sur-Maye | Fontaine-le-Port | Eddie Fontaine |
The theatre later underwent three substantial transformations: the first in 1763, when it was greatly reduced in size for the Paris Opera (to a capacity of 400 to 500 spectators) by the architects Jacques Soufflot and Jacques Gabriel; the second in 1792, when it was transformed into the hall of the National Convention; and the third in 1808, when Napoleon had a new theatre built to the designs of the architects Percier and Fontaine.