See also: Luxembourg

The Palais of Luxembourg marked, towards the south, a kind of border of the town of Paris still in extension.

Fault of growing in a beautiful effect of prospect, the field of Luxembourg will grow in width, in an absorption of buildings being next to itself and a development of the garden was completed towards the west by effects of trees in quincunx and vast alleys. This part will be parcelled out for the construction of the streets.

Since Marie de Médicis had made palate itself a copy of the palate of Pitti of Florence, the place had taken part narrowly in the businesses of family of the Bourbons, then of Orleans.

By making some a prison, the Convention did not modify it considerably. What made some, compared to the other prisons of Paris, a rather pleasant place. In fact the Girondins lived their last days there and one will find there successively Jacques-Rene Hébert, Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, François-Philippe-Nazaire Fabre d' Églantine, Jean-Marie Herault de Séchelles, finally in its turn, after Thermidor 9 year II (July 27th, 1794), the painter Jacques-Louis David, who had seriously compromised himself in the entourage of Maximilien de Robespierre, and which painted one of its rare landscapes there.

It is in Luxembourg which was to be according to the wills of the legislative Parliament, locked up the royal family, the shortly after on August 10th, 1792. But the Commune of Paris objected that the existence of underground, under the base of the palate made dangerous its use because it did not exclude from the escape bids.