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Monuments
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The Palais Royal is a monument located in the 1st district of Paris. In the early XVIIth century, it was called the ‘Palais Cardinal’, referring to its baker, Richelieu. It became Palais Royal when Anne of Austria settled there with the young Louis XIV, a little later. During the French Revolution in 1789, it lost its nobility to become the centre of bustle and pleasures with gambling joint and ladies of the night.
It also at this time that the neighbour theatre was built: the Variétés Amusantes, which is today the headquarters of the Comédie Française. Now, the Palais Royal buildings shelter the Council of State, the Constitutional Council and Culture Ministry.
In the entrance, close to the Place du Palais Royal, the so controversial Daniel Buren columns (1986) with white and grey stripes are rising, overhanging an underground network of watercourses where tourists and short of love Parisians throw some coins before making a wish.
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