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11 Jean Marais, Jean Cocteau and
Colette among its famous
Displays of art and
Palais Royal former residents. design at the Musée
The courtyard contains
 F3 ⌂ Palace: Pl du Palais the black-and-white stone des Arts Décoratifs
Royal 75001; gardens: 6 rue
de Montpensier q Palais columns that form conceptual
Royal # Apr–Sep: 8am– artist Daniel Buren’s Les Deux religious art, much of it
10:30pm daily; Oct–Mar: Plateaux, installed here in 1986, surviving from now-vanished
despite opposition about their
churches and monasteries.
EXPERIENCE Paris: Tuileries and Opéra by Cardinal Richelieu in the 12 royal gardener André Le Nôtre
8am–8:30pm daily
suitability for the space. Today,
Contained within its peaceful
∑ domaine-palais-royal.fr
they are loved by children and
walls are the tombs of the
playwright Pierre Corneille, the
This former royal palace, built
skateboarders alike.
and the Enlightenment
early 17th century, passed
philosopher and art critic
to the Crown on his death
Denis Diderot.
and became the child hood
St-Roch
home of Louis XIV. Under the
18th-century royal dukes of
 F3 ⌂ 296 rue St-
Orléans, it became the epi-
Honoré 75001 q Tuileries,
13 "
centre of brilliant gatherings,
Pyramides # Sep–Jun:
Musée des Arts
interspersed with periods of
gambling and de bauchery.
9am–7pm Tue–Sun ¢ Non-
It was from here that the
 F3 ⌂ Palais du Louvre,
religious public hols
clarion call to revolution
107–111 rue de Rivoli 75001
∑ paroisse saintroch.fr
roused the mobs to storm 8:30am–7pm daily; Jul–Aug: Décoratifs
q Palais Royal, Tuileries
the Bastille on 14 July 1789. This remarkably long church, # Museum: 11am–6pm Tue–
Today the south section unusually set on a north-south Sun (to 9pm Thu); library:
of the build ing houses the axis, was designed by Jacques 1–6pm Mon & Thu, 10am–
Councils of State and the Lemercier, the renowned archi- 6pm Tue, Wed, Fri ¢ 1 Jan, 1
Ministry of Culture. Just to the tect of Paris’s iconic May, 25 Dec ∑ madparis.fr
west is the Comédie Française, Louvre museum,
estab lished by Louis XIV in and its foun- Occupying the northwest
1680. The gardens are about dation stone wing of the Palais du Louvre
one-third smaller than the was laid (along with the Musée de la
original ones, laid out by the by Louis XIV in Publicité and the Musée de
royal gar dener for Cardinal 1653. The la Mode et du Textile), this
Richelieu in the 1630s. This church is a museum offers an eclectic mix
is due to the construction, treasure trove of decorative art and domestic
between 1781 and 1784, of of exquisitely design ranging from the
60 uniform houses that border preserved Middle Ages to the present
three sides of the square.
These days, restaurants, art
gal leries and specialist shops
line the square, which has
counted such luminaries as
Did You Know?
Daniel Buren’s striped
columns in the Palais
Royal’s courtyard
are the artwork that
Parisians love
to hate.
The Arc de Triomphe du
Carrousel, crowned by
Victory riding a chariot
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