Palais-Royal (fra)

Palais-Royal

Palais-Royal ranks 2,056th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hamilton, New Zealand, Astoria, Queens, and Carcassonne. Memorable people born in Palais-Royal include Louis Philippe I, Marie Louise d’Orléans, and Victor, Prince Napoléon. Memorable people who died in Palais-Royal include Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, and Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden. Palais-Royal has been the birth place of many politicians, and noblemen and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Palais-Royal is located in France.

The Palais-Royal is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for Cardinal Richelieu from about 1633 to 1639 by architect Jacques Lemercier. Richelieu bequeathed it to Louis XIII, before Louis XIV gave it to his younger brother, the Duke of Orléans. As the succeeding Dukes of Orléans made such extensive alterations over the years, almost nothing remains of Lemercier's original design. Read more on Wikipedia