The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced: [pa.l? dy lyk.s??.bu??]) is located at 15 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was …More
The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced: [pa.l? dy lyk.s??.bu??]) is located at 15 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally built (1615?1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse to be the royal residence of the regent Marie de Médicis, mother of Louis XIII of France. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799?1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled (1835?1856) by Alphonse de Gisors. Since 1958 it has been the seat of the French Senate of the Fifth Republic. Immediately west of the palace on the rue de Vaugirard is the Petit Luxembourg, now the residence of the Senate President; and slightly further west, the Musée du Luxembourg, in the former orangery. On the south side of the palace, the formal Luxembourg Garden presents a 25-hectare green parterre of gravel and lawn populated with statues and large basins of water where children sail model boats. Less
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