Palais Bourbon in Paris
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The Palais Bourbon is the meeting place of the
National Assembly , the lower legislative chamber of the
French Parliament . It is in the
7th arrondissement of
Paris , on the
Rive Gauche of the
Seine across from the
Place de la Concorde .
The palace complex today has a floor area of 124,000 m² (1,330,000 sq ft), with over 9,500 rooms, in which 3,000 people work. The complex includes the Hôtel de Lassay , on the west side of the Palais Bourbon; it is the official residence of the President of the National Assembly .
Plenary Hall © Richard Ying et Tangui Morlier/cc-by-sa-3.0
The original palace was built beginning in 1722 for
Louise Françoise de Bourbon , Duchess of Bourbon, the legitimised daughter of
Louis XIV and the
Marquise de Montespan . Four successive architects – Lorenzo Giardini,
Pierre Cailleteau ,
Jean Aubert and
Jacques Gabriel – completed the palace in 1728. It was then nationalised during the
French Revolution . From 1795 to 1799, during the
Directory , it was the meeting place of the
Council of Five Hundred , which chose the government leaders. Beginning in 1806, during
Napoleon ‘s
French Empire , Bernard Poyet’s
Neoclassical facade was added to mirror that of the
Church of the Madeleine , facing it across the Seine beyond the Place de la Concorde.
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