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Palais-Royal

The Palais-Royal is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the . The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: palace and an associated garden located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris
  • Also known as: “Palais Royal” and “Palais-Cardinal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Orsay Museum and Louvre Pyramid.

Museum
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The Musée d'Orsay is a in , France, on the of the . It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900.

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The is a large glass-and-metal entrance way and skylight designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in , surrounded by three smaller pyramids.

College
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The is a French grande école and a constituent college of Université PSL, specialising in the historical sciences. It was founded in 1821, and was located initially at the , and later at the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 1st arrondissement and Quartier des Halles.

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The centre of contemporary and the site of such landmarks as the Louvre and of the Tuileries and Palais-Royal, the is full of attractions for travellers of all inclinations, including some of the finest parks, museums, shops, and bars in the city.

Quarter
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Les Halles was 's central fresh food market. It last operated on 12 January 1973 and was replaced by an underground shopping centre and a park. The unpopular modernist development was demolished yet again in 2010, and replaced by the Westfield Forum des Halles, a modern built largely underground and topped by an undulating 2.5 hectare canopy.

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The of Paris is one of the financial centres of Europe, being home to the Bourse and thus the CAC 40 index you hear about in world financial news. Other major activities in the neighbourhood are journalism and fashion.

Palais-Royal

Latitude
48.8635° or 48° 51′ 49″ north
Longitude
2.33876° or 2° 20′ 20″ east
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V87Q+9G
Geo­Names ID
6545270
Wiki­data ID
Q329948
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Palais-Royal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “القصر الملكي”
  • Armenian: “Պալե-Ռոյալ”
  • Asturian: “Palais-Royal”
  • Basque: “Palais-Royal”
  • Basque: “Parisko Errege Jauregia”
  • Belarusian: “Пале-Раяль”
  • Catalan: “Palais Royal”
  • Catalan: “Palau Reial”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆشکی پالەیس ڕۆیاڵ”
  • Chinese: “巴黎皇家宫殿”
  • Chinese: “巴黎皇家宮殿”
  • Croatian: “Palais Royal”
  • Czech: “Královský palác v Paříži”
  • Czech: “Palais Royal”
  • Danish: “Palais-Royal”
  • Dutch: “Palais Royal”
  • Dutch: “Palais-Royal”
  • Esperanto: “Palais Royal”
  • Esperanto: “Palais-Royal”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝa Palaco de Parizo”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝa Palaco”
  • Estonian: “Palais-Royal”
  • Finnish: “Palais-Royal”
  • Finnish: “Palais-Royale”
  • French: “palais Cardinal”
  • French: “palais du Tribunat”
  • French: “palais-Égalité”
  • French: “Palais-Royal”
  • French: “Quartier du Palais-Royal”
  • German: “Palais Cardinal”
  • German: “Palais Royal”
  • German: “Palais-Royal”
  • German: “Salle Richelieu”
  • Greek: “Παλαί Ρουαγιάλ”
  • Hebrew: “פאלה רואיאל”
  • Hebrew: “פאלה רויאל”
  • Hebrew: “פאלה-רויאל”
  • Hebrew: “פלה רואיאל”
  • Hebrew: “פלה רויאל”
  • Hungarian: “Palais Cardinal”
  • Hungarian: “Palais-Cardinal”
  • Hungarian: “Palais-Royal”
  • Indonesian: “Palais-Royal”
  • Italian: “Palais Royal”
  • Italian: “Palais-Royal”
  • Italian: “Palazzo Reale”
  • Japanese: “パレ・ロワイヤル”
  • Japanese: “パレ＝ロイヤル”
  • Japanese: “パレロワイヤル”
  • Korean: “팔레 루아얄”
  • Latin: “Palatium Regium (Lutetia)”
  • Latin: “Palatium Regium”
  • Lithuanian: “Karališkieji rūmai (Paryžius)”
  • Lithuanian: “Karališkieji rūmai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Palais-Royal”
  • Malay: “Palais-Royal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palais royal de Paris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palais Royal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palais-Royal”
  • Norwegian: “Palais-Royal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Palais Reiau”
  • Persian: “پله رویال”
  • Persian: “پلهٔ رویال”
  • Polish: “Palais Royal”
  • Polish: “Palais-Royal”
  • Portuguese: “Palácio Real de Paris”
  • Portuguese: “Palais Royal”
  • Portuguese: “Palais-Royal”
  • Romanian: “Palais Royal”
  • Romanian: “Palais-Royal”
  • Romanian: “Palatul Regal”
  • Russian: “Пале Рояль”
  • Russian: “Пале-Ройяль”
  • Russian: “Пале-Рояль”
  • Russian: “Пале-Руаяль”
  • Scots: “Palais Royal”
  • Serbian: “Краљевска палата (Париз)”
  • Serbian: “Краљевска палата”
  • Slovak: “Palais Royal”
  • Slovenian: “Kraljeva palača, Pariz”
  • Slovenian: “Kraljeva palača”
  • Slovenian: “Palais-Royal”
  • Spanish: “Palacio Real”
  • Spanish: “Palais Royal”
  • Spanish: “Palais-Royal”
  • Swedish: “Palais Royal”
  • Swedish: “Palais-Cardinal”
  • Swedish: “Palais-Royal”
  • Thai: “ปาแล-การ์ดินัลด์”
  • Thai: “ปาแล-รัวยาล”
  • Turkish: “Palais-Royal”
  • Ukrainian: “Пале рояль”
  • Ukrainian: “Пале-Рояль”
  • Urdu: “رویال محل”
  • Vietnamese: “Palais Royal”
  • Vietnamese: “Palais-Royal”
  • Welsh: “Palais-Royal”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Collégiale Saint-Honoré and Palais Royal.

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