Palais Brongniart
Palais Brongniart stands at Place de la Bourse in Paris’s second arrondissement, presenting a neoclassical façade shaped like a Roman temple. A giant Corinthian colonnade gives the entrance its defining rhythm.
Napoleon ordered the building in the early nineteenth century to house the Paris stock exchange, then called Bourse de Paris. Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart began the design before dying in 1813. Éloi Labarre completed it in 1826, while later additions by Jean-Baptiste-Frederic Cavel created two lateral wings. Those wings give the building its cruciform plan.
The Paris stock exchange traded here until 1987, while MATIF and MONEP remained until automation in 1998. Today, the building hosts congresses, conferences and gala dinners as a convention and event centre. It also supports economic and social innovation, with particular attention to fintech initiatives.
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