Palais-Royal & Colonnes de Buren
PAR-21 • monuments1629 - 1784 (Arcades) - 1986 (Buren)

Palais-Royal & Colonnes de Buren

Cardinal Richelieu's historic royal court with Daniel Buren's striped art installation

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Documented Historiographical History

Built by Cardinal Richelieu in 1629 as the Palais-Cardinal, later bequeathed to King Louis XIII and inhabited by the young Sun King Louis XIV. Contemporary installation by Daniel Buren added in 1986.

Architectural & Symbolic Reading

A clandestine royal garden where 17th-century classical architecture engages in provocative dialogue with contemporary conceptual art.

Historical Legends & Mysteries

On July 12, 1789, Camille Desmoulins leaped onto a café table in the Palais-Royal gardens to summon the Parisian mob to arms, igniting the storming of the Bastille two days later.

Insider Curiosities & Secret Facts
•Daniel Buren's installation 'Les Deux Plateaux' consists of 260 striped black-and-white marble columns of varying heights emerging from a subterranean watercourse.
•The historic gardens feature a tiny brass solar noon cannon (Petit Canon du Palais-Royal) that fired automatically when the sun focused through a magnifying glass.
•Writer Colette lived and died in the arcade apartments overlooking the gardens at No. 9 Rue de Beaujolais.
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