16 August 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks, Paris / Île-de-France
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© Marie-Lan Nguyen
The Palais-Royal is a former French royal palace located on
Rue Saint-Honoré in the
1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the
Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for
Cardinal Richelieu from about 1633 to 1639 by architect
Jacques Lemercier. Richelieu bequeathed it to
Louis XIII, before
Louis XIV gave it to his younger brother,
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. As the succeeding
Dukes of Orléans made such extensive alterations over the years, almost nothing remains of Lemercier’s original design.
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25 December 2024 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: General, European Union, Portrait
Reading Time: 7 minutes
in 1982 © European Union
Simone Veil was a French
magistrate,
Holocaust survivor, and politician who served as
Health Minister in several governments and was
President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing
women’s rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized
abortion, today known as the
Veil Act (French: Loi Veil). From 1998 to 2007, she was a member of the
Constitutional Council, France’s highest legal authority.
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