Luxembourg Palace
Also known as Palais du Luxembourg, Palais du Senat
seat of the French Senate
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The Luxembourg Palace is a historic building in Paris that serves as the home of the French Senate, the upper chamber of France's parliament. It is one of France's most important government buildings, where senators meet to debate and pass laws that affect the entire country.
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Key facts
- Architectural style
- Louis XIII
- Location
- 6th arrondissement of Paris , France, 15 Rue de Vaugirard
- Current tenants
- French Senate
- Completed
- 1645 ; 381 years ago ( 1645 )
- Architect
- Salomon de Brosse
- Other designers
- Jean-François Chalgrin Alphonse de Gisors
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- 2017 - Le palais du Luxembourg, dans le jardin du Luxembourg, Paris - 3.jpg
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Article
The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced [palɛ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]) is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse to be the royal residence of the regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean-François Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled (1835–1856) by Alphonse de Gisors. The palace has been the seat of the upper houses of the various French national legislatures (excepting only the unicameral National Assembly of the Second Republic) since the establishment of the Sénat conservateur during the Consulate; as such, it has been home to the Senate of the Fifth Republic since its establishment in 1958.
Immediately west of the palace on the Rue de Vaugirard is the Petit Luxembourg, now the residence of the Senate President; and slightly further west, the Musée du Luxembourg, in the former orangery. On the south side of the palace, the formal Luxembourg Garden presents a 25-hectare (62-acre) green parterre of gravel and lawn populated with statues and large basins of water where children sail model boats.