点评:Walking towards our hotel at the end of Rue du Connetable, we saw a strange construction straddling the street. It looked like a triumphal arch or a gate marking the entrance to the city of Chantilly, close to the Great Stables. From close-up, however, it was nothing but the outer wall of an unfinished building. Passing under the arch and looking at it from the other side, we clearly noticed the symmetry with the pavilion to the left of the open arches of the Great Stables’ façade. As it turns out, the gigantic Great Stables, which were built by architect Jean Aubert for Duke Louis-Henri de Bourbon between 1719 and 1740, were still unfinished when he died. But there was no money left to finish the right pavilion. So the lone wall became a kind of city gate, taking its name from the Abbey of Saint-Denis.
翻译:走向位于康内塔布路尽头的酒店时,我们看到一座奇特的建筑横跨街道。它看起来像一座凯旋门,又像通往尚蒂伊城的大门,靠近大马厩。然而,近距离观察,它不过是一堵未完工建筑的外墙。穿过拱门下方,从另一侧望去,我们清楚地注意到它与大马厩正面开放式拱门左侧的凉亭对称。原来,巨大的大马厩是由建筑师让·奥贝尔于1719年至1740年间为路易-亨利·德·波旁公爵建造的,公爵去世时,这座建筑仍未完工。但由于资金不足,无法完成右侧凉亭的修建。因此,这堵孤零零的墙成了城门,并以圣丹尼斯修道院的名字命名。