The arcades of the porticos were closed down and the central staircase was demolished so that the Senate chamber was placed in its place. Luxembourg Palace is open for the public, except during the French Senate meeting days. The palace is open for individual visits one Saturday a month - Details and booking at For more information about opening hours and visiting contact the French Senate by email visites-conferences monuments-nationaux. Innovations, such as the main building that takes a large scale compared to the two wings, or the monumental central part, mark the castle.
The Luxembourg Palace is the result of the free inspiration of the Pitti Palace Florence, Italy commissioned by Marie de Medici, who, bored at the Louvre, wanted to rediscover the Florentine spirit and the sweetness that this evoked especially through the the use of the stone boss in the architecture of the building rather than a mixture of brick and stone, as found for example in the hunting lodge of Versailles. Room of meetings, hemicycle: When it was decided that the palace would host the Senate, Chalgrin completely rearranged the interior to make the new senatorial hall.
Completed in , it became a room of peers under the Restoration, was redrawn in to meet the need for expansion. The chosen architect, Alphonse de Gisors, a student of Chalgrin, advanced the facade of the building of 31 meters on the garden and arranged in space thus cleared a new hemicycle between and The room was rebuilt after a fire in , always by Gisors. At the two ends of the diameter of the hemicycle are two other statues, ordered in by the Minister of the Interior Charles de Remusat: St.
Guest Book Room: The room of the Book of Gold is a vaulted room of the ground floor arranged in by the architect Baraguay, which was used to receive the Book of Gold of the Pairie, that is to say the name of the visitors illustrious members of the House of Peers. Baraguay reuses woodwork and decorations from other rooms, mainly the apartments of Marie de Medici at the Luxembourg Palace and Anne of Austria at the Louvre.
Chapel Hidden, then again highlighted, this chapel was designed by the architect Alphonse de Gisors during the campaign of , during the reign of Louis-Philippe. This campaign aims to include the visit to the Heritage Days according to the wishes of the Questeurs.
It is located on the ground floor of the east wing of the main courtyard. Small dimensions about 23 m by 6 meters. Library: The present reading room of the library was built during the enlargement of the palace of The Senators of the Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte succeeded the directors, and this was when the palace became a governmental building, yet Napoleon wanted numerous changes made to the Luxembourg Palace, and it was the architect Jean Chalgrin, who was commissioned with the task of numerous alterations.
Now we mentioned earlier that Marie de Medici had 24 paintings produced by the artist Rubens, and they were installed in what was known as the Rubens Gallery, yet these were subsequently moved to the Louvre Museum , which is where they still are today, and the gallery itself was removed to make way for a monumental staircase.
After the fall of Napoleon and the return of King Louis XVIII, he set up the House of Lords at the Palais du Luxembourg, and it also became a court of justice, yet when King Louis Philippe took over for the second House of Lords, there were parliamentary members, and the palace needed to be extended. So, the architect Alphonse de Gisors, was commissioned for the additions to the palace, and provided a new Chamber of Sessions, and numerous artists were also commissioned for paintings, including Eugene Delacroix , who decorated the cupola and half dome of the library, which can still be seen today.
More alterations took place during the reign of Napoleon III, yet after the fall of the Empire in , the Palais du Luxembourg took on other roles such as being the home of the War Council. But after the fire that destroyed the Hotel de Ville , or City Hall in Paris, the Prefecture of the Seine was installed in the palace, and then in , it became the seat of the French Senate. Numerous famous politicians sat within the Palais du Luxembourg, including Victor Hugo , and you can see a bust and statue of him within the palace, but during World War II, it was under German occupation, and got liberated on 25 August Then from , the Luxembourg Palace once more became the seat of the French Senate, which is where it still remains today.
In more recent years, the palace has been modernised to adapt to the needs of a modern political assembly, however, there has also been much restoration undertaken to preserve the unique and ornate interior decorations and architecture of this historical monument in Paris. Also today, the Senate is in charge of maintaining not just the Palais du Luxembourg, but also the Petit Luxembourg, which is the residence of the President of the Upper Chamber, and has been since
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