Quai d'Orsay

The Quai d' Orsay [ kɛdɔʀsɛ ] is a street in the 7th arrondissement in Paris. It starts from 1788 to 1791 built bridge Pont de la Concorde, follows the course of the Seine on the Rive Gauche and ends at the Pont de l' Alma.

Comparable to the terms White House for the U.S. or Downing Street government. 10 for the Government of the United Kingdom and the Quai d'Orsay was for a metonym for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, which has been there since the 1853 's seat.

The street is named after Charles Boucher d' Orsay, Consultant at Court and 1700-1708 reeve. He had 1705 further upstream, starting from 1685 to 1689 by Jacques IV Gabriel, designed by Jules Hardouin -Mansart built Pont Royal, allow the construction of the first road section to the west ahead, the only in the years around 1800 to the Pont de la Concorde was completed. First named after Boucher d' Orsay, this street was renamed under the consulate in Quai Bonaparte and since 1947 Quai Anatole France called.

The opening of the Pont Royal in 1689 and the construction of this first part of the quay from 1705 contributed significantly to the onset of the 18th century development of the city to the west, which came to an abrupt end with the outbreak of the revolution.

From the year 1722, ie at a time when the area beyond the later Pont de la Concorde was still a swampy river banks, and followed by a free, covered with vegetable fields area joined that extended to the Esplanade des Invalides, let Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Nantes, widowed Princess of Condé, a legitimized daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, as her close friend and advisor, Armand de Lesparre, marquis de Lassay establish or on adjacent land two stately palaces: the Palais Bourbon, which was erected between 1722 and 1728 Lassurance, Gabriel and Aubert, designed by Ghirardini, and the Hôtel de Lassay, which was built by Ghirardini, Lassurance and Aubert. Today, the Palais Bourbon convenes the National Assembly, while the Hôtel de Lassay their president serves as the official residence.

Only under the First Empire, it was decided in 1808 to extend the quay by the reaching to the banks of the Seine gardens of these two palaces. For this second, incurred after the Pont de la Concorde road section is reached for the overthrow of Bonaparte in 1815, the original name again. It is today the Quai d' Orsay.

The building of the Foreign Ministry was built between 1844-1855 to a design by architect Lacornée. The facade statues brought the sculptor Triqueti to in 1870.