Palais Brongniart in Paris, also called Palais de la Bourse
It was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1808 to house the Paris Stock Exchange. It also housed the Commercial Court and the Paris Chamber of Commerce, created by Napoleon in 1803. It finished construction in 1826 and was named after the original architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart.
Brongniart died in 1813, so the architect Étienne-Éloi Labarre was put in charge of completing the project. He made some modifications to the original design.
From the Palais Brongniart website:
The Emperor wanted to bring all stock exchange activities together in one place, a real innovation at the time in order to optimize the existing system.
[…] The site will indeed be the lung of 19th-century financial activity, promoting the expansion of railways, steelmaking and major industrial adventures, until 1998, when the stock exchange closed at the Palais Brongniart.
Today, Palais Brongniart is one of the leading congress and event centers in Paris, with a philosophy of action based on economic, social and solidarity innovation. A project led by GL events, one of the international leaders in the management of event spaces, and with the City of Paris, owner of the building.
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