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Domaine national du Palais-Royal

Come and discover the Domaine national du Palais Royal, a ‘village in the city' facing the Louvre in the heart of Paris. For four centuries it has been a seat of power and place of pleasure.

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Open every day
1st october to 31 march : 7 am to 8:30 pm
1st april to 31 may : 7 am to 10:15 pm
1st september to 30 september : 7 am to 9:30 pm

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Going there

Metro: lines 1, 7 and 14
Bus: lines 21, 27, 39, 48, 69, 72, 81, 95 and Balabus

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Localisation

Palais-Royal garden
6 rue de Montpensier
75001 Paris

T 33/ (0)1 47 03 92 16
F 33/ (0)1 42 96 13 54

Coordonnées GPS

Latitude : 48.865
Longitude : 2.3377

Weather

Thursday 23°C

Thu 53°C / 74°C

Fri 52°C / 74°C

Sat 53°C / 73°C

Sun 53°C / 72°C

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Understanding the Domaine national du Palais Royal

• Three centuries of architecture. Built for the Cardinal Richelieu by the architect Lemercier, who also built the Sorbonne, the main body (1634) opposite the Louvre became a royal residence (during the Regency of Anne of Austria) and then the seat of the Orléans family from 1661. Works were completed and then modified in the 18th and 19th centuries. The three wings around the gardens date from the late 18th century.

• A hotbed for shady dealings. Today’s magnificent monumental surroundings give no hint as to revolutionary fervour which characterised the place in the 18th century, nor of its reputation in the 19th century as a place of promiscuity and women of easy virtue, as immortalised by Balzac.

• Two famous residents. Colette (1873-1954) and Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) both lived in the Palais Royal.