Luxembourg Pailace

The Luxembourg Pailace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced [pa.lɛ dy lyk.sɑ̃.buːʁ]) is locatit at 15 rue de Vaugirard in the 6t arrondissement o Paris. It is next tae the Petit Luxembourg.

Luxembourg Pailace
Palais du Luxembourg (in French)
Luxembourg Pailace gairden façade
Location within Paris
General information
Location	Paris, Fraunce
Address	15 rue de Vaugirard
Coordinates	48°50′54″N 2°20′14″E
Current tenants	French Senate
Biggin stairtit	1615
Completit	1645
Design an construction
Airchitect	Salomon de Brosse
Ither designers	Jean Chalgrin Alphonse de Gisors

Brief history

The pailace wis commisioned bi Marie de' Medici tae mirror the style o the Palazzo Pitti frae her native Florence (she wis a dochter o a Grand Duke o Tuscany an princess o the Grand Duchy o Tuscany bi birth.) As a result it wis cried the Palais Médicis

At her daith in In 1642, Marie de' Medici bequeathed the Luxembourg tae her secoint an favourite son, Gaston, Duke o Orléans, who cried it the Palais d'Orléans even though it wis still cried the Palais Médicis Upon Gaston's daith, the pailace passed tae his widow, Marguerite o Lorraine, then tae his elder dochter bi his first mairiage, La Grande Mademoiselle. In 1660, she sold it tae her younger half-sister, Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans who, in turn, gave it tae her cousin, King Louis XIV, in 1694.

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Soorces

• Ayers, Andrew (2004). The Architecture of Paris. Stuttgart; London: Edition Axel Menges. ISBN 9783930698967.