Palais Bourbon
See also: Bourbon
The palate Bourbon is the name commonly given to the building which shelters the French National Assembly, on left bank of the the Seine, in the row of the Pont of the Harmony and the Place of the Harmony.
An orthographical subtlety which makes that one writes palate Bourbon when one speaks about the building, a palate having belonged to the family of the Bourbons, and one puts a Hyphen and capital letters, Palate-Bourbon , when the institution of the Republic is indicated, a different way to say National Assembly .
History
The Palais Bourbon was built for Louise Francoise de Bourbon, Miss de Nantes, legitimated girl of Louis XIV and Madam de Montespan, which had married Louis III of Bourbon-Cop, duke of Bourbon and 6th Prince de Condé.The construction of the building begins in 1722. Several architects follow one another, Giardini, Pierre Cailleteau says “Lassurance”, both prematurely died, then Jean Aubert and Jacques V Gabriel which completes the work in 1728. It becomes the property of the Prince de Condé who increases it in 1764. It then has the shape of a vast palate in the style of the Grand Trianon with Versailles and close to the Hôtel of Lassay, built simultaneously and to which it is soon to be attached by a gallery.
Confiscated in 1791, the palate “above Bourbon” is declared Bien national. It shelters in 1794 future the Polytechnic school before being affected in 1795 with the Conseil of the Five hundred, the installations caused by these last occupants are carried out by the architect Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine.
It is then Napoleon I {{er}} which, in the fields of the architect Bernard Poyet, modifies the northern frontage, raising twelve columns in Greek temple which make during with those of the church of the Madeleine on Right Bank. Imposing the allegorical pediment is scuplté at the origin by Antoine Chaudet and represents Napoleon i with horse offering to the legislative Body the conquered flags with Austerlitz. With the return of the Bourbons on the throne, the low-reliefs are hammered and replaced by a scene magnifiant the constitutional Charte granted the French by Louis XVIII, scene carved by Evariste Fragonard. In its turn, the Monarchie of July will replace this pediment by the current one: France, draped with the antique, upright in front of its throne, accompanied by the Force and Justice, calling the elite with the clothes industry of the laws, works of Jean-Pierre Cortot.
It accommodates then, afterwards interior modifications, the various Housees of Commons under the Restauration and the Second Empire, it is the seat of the National Assembly of the French Republic since 1879. The four statues which flank the staircase are those of four senior civil servants of the State: Maximilien de Sully, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Henri François d' Aguesseau and Michel of Hospital.
Collections of the National Assembly
It shelters a very invaluable library of which the funds was made up starting from the goods confiscated in the emigrated aristocrats. Among its richnesses, minutes of the lawsuit of Jeanne d' Arc, manuscripts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the collection of the busts of terra cotta members of Parliament of Honore Daumier (“celebrities of the middle course”) and the Codex Borbonicus.
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