Palais Royal

Origins

It was built by the architect Jacques Lemercier at the request of the Cardinal of Richelieu starting from 1624. Its site corresponds to some extent to that which occupied the Hôtel of Rambouillet. At that time, it was about the Cardinal Palate.
the Cardinal of Richelieu attended the brilliance living room regularly that the Marquise of Rambouillet held in its castle.

Entirely rebuilt about 1781, of the galleries are set up on the circumference of the garden, and are sold to tradesmen. There does not remain Palate " original" , that the " gallery of Proues" , in the south east.

royal Residence

the Cardinal of Richelieu bequeathed to its death the palate with Louis XIII.
Starting from 1643, after the death of Louis XIII, the regent Anne of Austria and its son, the young person Louis XIV, as well as the cardinal Mazarin left Louvre to live this palate. It is at that time that it is renamed " Royal" palate;.
In 1648, at the time of the Sling, the Parisian ones invade the palate to make sure that the young person Louis XIV and his mother did not escape.

Remain of Mister

In 1661, Louis XIV settles with the Louvre and it is his/her brother Philippe (known as Mister ) who receives the palate in Apanage.

Remain of the regent

In 1692, the regent Philippe III of Orleans (wire of Mister) inherits it. He lived the Palate and a life of debauchery with its “Roués carried out to it”.

Revolutionary hearth

the day before the French revolution, the palate belonged to Philippe IV of Orleans (future Philippe-Equality) which made it rebuild following a fire sourvenu in 1773. It made a high Parisian place then of it, and installed there shops, theaters, coffees, a garden… One then called the palate, the commercial palate and Philippe of Orleans the provost of the merchants . The Palais Royal became a place of agitation and a den of iniquity. The speakers haranguaient there crowd and it is from there that the agitation left which preceded the catch by the Bastille. Camille Desmoulins harangua crowd, hoisted on a coffee table, inviting the walkers to raise a distinctive sign, and it was the sheet of the trees: the green which illustrates the hope, the July 13rd 1789 and its speech is remained famous.

It is from there that also the October 5th 1789 left the delegation which protested against the royal veto. October 5th, 1789 several thousands of women went on the Château of Versailles. The October 6th, they brought back the royal family to the Tuileries under good escort.

The Palais Royal during the Revolution will offer the spectacle of a at most dirty pleasant ambulation where the love reigns, if not simple coquettery.

The coffees take their eases under the arcades there, by prolonging their trade under foliations. They are hearths of verbal agitation. The platform of the novel ideas, as long as the Revolution will function, and to evolve/move, at the rate/rhythm of the word, the jolts of passions which it raises. They were less the exclusive temple than the space of the anarchy which was there, of tradition, tolerated.

It is in the Palais Royal that in 1793 was killed by old the Pâris bodyguard, the deputy Louis-Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau who had voted the death of the king.

In 1793, the palate became quite national.

Under the Empire

the Palais Royal was, after the 18 brumaire, affected with the Tribunat.

Residence of the dukes of Orleans

the palate was restored with the family of Orleans in 1814; it remained the residence of the dukes of Orleans until in 1848. As of on December 24th, 1814, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine is named architect of the duke of Orleans , it will make installations necessary for the Usage and the Bienséance (large main staircase, Galerie of Orleans, etc) during the Restauration and the Monarchie of July.

The Palate is plundered by revolted which reverses the Monarchie of July, the February 22nd 1848.

The Commune

In 1871, the palate is destroyed. It will be restored two years to later receive the Council of State.

Current function

the Council of State settled in 1875 there.
the Constitutional council and the Ministère of the Culture also sit there.
the Comédie-Française.

Garden

With the back of the garden is the National library of France (Richelieu site).

Columns of Buren

See too

Colette finished her days in an apartment of the Palais Royal

Theater of the Palais Royal

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