Le Grand Louvre: But Versailles, the living folie though Colbert was defending the great plan, was soon to supplant the Louvre. Leaving the Tuileries park, that Le Nôtre had just transformed into a countryside illusion, the King was leaving his Paris apartments, where he felt surrounded by the crowd, for Versailles, where the absolute monarch could feel at ease. The incomplete Louvre was taking a new artistic and intellectual function. Henri IV old Grande Gallerie was populated, artists and painters taking over the Louvre and Tuileries studios, if not courtiers. The French, Inscriptions, Science, Painting and Sculpting, Chalcography Academies were located there, and also the Royal Printing House, plans of fortified cities, the tribunal de la garenne du Louvre.