Palais Bourbon

The Palais Bourbon is the meeting place of the National Assembly, the lower legislative chamber of the French Parliament. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the Rive Gauche of the Seine, across from the Place de la Concorde. The original palace was built beginning in 1722 for Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, the eldest legitimised daughter of Louis XIV and the Marquise de Montespan. Four successive architects – Lorenzo Giardini, Pierre Cailleteau, Jean Aubert and Jacques Gabriel who completed the palace in 1728. Nationalised during the French Revolution. From 1795 to 1799, during the Directory, it is now the official residence of the President of the National Assembly.

The Palais Bourbon of the Duchess of Bourbon

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  Plan of the ground floor of the Palais Bourbon (1752)
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  Drawing of the Palais Bourbon in 1730.
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  Louise Françoise de Bourbon, the creator of the Palais Bourbon as a widow.
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  The Palais Bourbon (upper left) and the Hôtel de Lassay (lower right), as depicted on the Turgot map of Paris (1739)