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Palais Bourbon

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The Palais Bourbon stands on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, facing the Place de la Concorde across the river, begun in 1722 as a private residence for the Duchesse de Bourbon, a legitimized daughter of King Louis XIV. The palace passed through several noble owners before being confiscated during the French Revolution, and it has served as the meeting place of France's lower legislative chamber, now the National Assembly, since the revolutionary period. Its imposing Neoclassical colonnaded facade facing the river was added early in the nineteenth century under Napoleon, designed to visually answer the Neoclassical facade of the Madeleine church across the Seine on the opposite bank. The building's interior retains grand reception rooms from its original residential construction alongside the purpose-built debating chamber added for its legislative function.

Facts
Building Type
Legislative palace, seat of the National Assembly 1
Location
7th arrondissement, Paris, France 1
Completed Year
1722 2
Completed Year
1728 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Palace 1
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Palace, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Baroque Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Palais Bourbon
Neoclassical Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Palais Bourbon
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Palais Bourbon
  • Lead paragraph 1, sentence 1
    the meeting place of the National Assembly
  • Infobox, location
    7th arrondissement, Paris, France
  • Lead paragraph 2, sentence 2
    completed the palace in 1728
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Palais Bourbon stands on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, facing the Place de la Concorde across the river, begun in 1722 as a private residence for the Duchesse de Bourbon, a legitimized daughter of King Louis XIV. The palace passed through several noble owners before being confiscated during the French Revolution, and it has served as the meeting place of France's lower legislative chamber, now the National Assembly, since the revolutionary period. Its imposing Neoclassical colonnaded facade facing the river was added early in the nineteenth century under Napoleon, designed to visually answer the Neoclassical facade of the Madeleine church across the Seine on the opposite bank. The building's interior retains grand reception rooms from its original residential construction alongside the purpose-built debating chamber added for its legislative function.
  • In Style: Baroque Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
    architectural_style: French Baroque; Neoclassical
  • In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
    architectural_style: French Baroque; Neoclassical
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2. Wikidata: Palais Bourbon
  • Wikidata Q936633, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q936633, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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