Palais-Royal

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The Palais-Royal, a monumental ensemble (palais, garden, galleries, theatre) north of the Louvre Palace in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, is a high place in the history of France and in Parisian life. Built by Richelieu in 1628, the Palace-Cardinal, given to King Louis XIII in 1636, served as residence for the Regent Anne of Austria (1601-1666) and the young Louis XIV child during the troubles of the Fronde and became the Palais-Royal. Given in apanage to Philippe d'Orléans in 1692, it became the Palais des Orléans.

The Regent lives there. Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, who became king of the French in 1830, was born there on 6 Oct. 1773.

The future Philippe Egalité carried out in 1780 a grand real estate operation led by the architect Victor Louis, by framing the garden of uniform constructions and galleries that would become for half a century, through their cafes, restaurants, gaming salons and other entertainment, the fashionable appointment of an elegant and often libertine Parisian society. The closing of gambling houses will end in 1836. Returned to Orléans in 1814, made available to King Jerome under the Second Empire, he was assigned from 1871 to different...