Palais Royal

The Palais Royal, formerly the Palais Cardinal, is a palace in the 1st arrondissement of Paris city, about 150 meters north of the Louvre. The palace houses in its main building to the State Council (French Conseil d'État ), in the west wing of the Comédie Française and the Constitutional Council (French Constitutional Council ) and in the east wing of the Ministry of Culture.

History

It was built in the years 1627-1629 by the architect Jacques Le Mercier for the first minister of Louis XIII. , Cardinal Richelieu, after whose death in 1642 it passed into the possession of the Crown and assumed its present name. After Richelieu, the queen mother and regent Anne of Austria, the palace lived with her ​​two minor sons, Louis XIV and Philippe d' Orléans.

At the time of the Fronde, which raged in the years 1648 to 1653 in Paris and throughout France, Louis XIV enjoyed a night at the Palais Royal, which was to characterize his long absolutist reign strong. After members of the parliaments of Paris, the French courts, in 1648 revolted against royal ordinances of Mazarin and Anne of Austria, the regent was forced with her two sons, the underage King Louis XIV and his younger brother Philippe, Duke of Anjou, Paris leave and flee to the royal castle to Saint -Germain -en- Laye, in order to escape capture by the conspirators.

However, the political turmoil soon demanded increasing the presence of the royal family in the capital Paris and so Anna returned from Austria to me her sons in 1651 to Paris in the Palais Royal back. In the night of 9 to 10 February succeeded insurgent Parisians through the cooperation of royal employee penetrate into the bedchamber of the young king, to check its presence. The alternate end to be asleep Ludwig was defenseless in his bed, while the rebellious citizens passed by this. The members of the royal family had become de facto prisoners in their besieged palace. Although the young king no physical harm was done in this night, this experience in the Palais Royal still dug deep into its memory. Never again, he wanted to be his subjects delivered so powerless and defenseless, as evidenced Louis XIV and some domestic policies from later statements. Also, the fact that he made the appointed by him at Versailles castle in the eighties to his fixed abode and seat of government is, in part, back to the previous Parisian experience. Because of its location outside of Paris, the Château de Versailles was seen as a better investment than defending the royal castles and palaces in the center of Paris.

In 1636, the Palace Theatre was opened in the annex. In the years 1660-1673 there played the drama troupe of Molière. After his death, the building was used until 1763 for various opera performances, then it burned out. At the end of the 18th century, the plant was rebuilt. Since 1786 it serves the Comédie Française as seat

In the years 1781-1784 about 60 houses were built with arcades around the palace garden, apartments, shops, dining establishments and entertainment venues housed. Here is concentrated the nightlife of the capital. The Promenade on the " Allée des Soupirs " ( Seufzerallee ) was famous throughout Europe because that is where the most beautiful girls and women prostitutes of all classes, even people from the high nobility were encountered there. Since the plant to the Duke of Orléans, a relative of the king belonged, the police had no access. This allowed a certain freedom of assembly. On July 13, 1789 ( according to some sources on July 11 or July 12 ) called there Camille Desmoulins for armed insurrection.

The once notorious gambling halls were closed in 1838.

Among the inhabitants of the houses on the Jardin du Palais Royal included, among others Sidonie -Gabrielle Colette, Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais.

The Palais Royal in the film

The Palais Royal is used in various game films. Among them are:

  • Charade (1963 ) by Stanley Donen
  • Interview with the Vampire (1994 ) Neil Jordan
  • Hommes, femmes, mode d' emploi (1996 ) by Claude Lelouch
  • The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code (2006) by Ron Howard
  • So Paris (2007), by Cédric Klapisch
  • Ca $ h (2008) by Éric Besnard
  • Caution Desire ( 2009) by Alain Resnais
Constitutional Council of France Jacques Lemercier Cardinal Mazarin Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye Saint-Germain-en-Laye Arcade (architecture) Charade (1963 film) Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Paris (2008 film) Cash (2008 film)
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