Palais Bourbon
The Palais Bourbon is built for politics, and it began as a dynastic residence for the Bourbon line. Construction started in 1722 for Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon—born in 1673 and the legitimised daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan—and the palace was completed in 1728 by four architects: Lorenzo Giardini, Pierre Cailleteau, Jean Aubert, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel. The French Revolution redirected its purpose: the palace was confiscated from Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, and nationalised. Between 1795 and 1799, during the Directory, it became the meeting place of the Council of Five Hundred, the body that selected the government leadership. In 1806, Napoleon’s First Empire added a Neoclassical façade designed by Bernard Poyet, aligned across the Seine to echo the Église de la Madeleine beyond Place de la Concorde. …
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