Nowadays, the Bourbon Palace is primarily known as the meeting place of the National Assembly of France, the lower house of the French parliament. The palace was built in 1722-1728 for the Duchess Louise-Francoise de Bourbon, the legitimate daughter of King Louis XIV and his favorite Marquise de Montespan. The Bourbon Palace, originally built in the so-called "Italian style" and surrounded by a magnificent garden, resembled the Grand Trianon and was called by contemporaries "the greatest decoration of the city after the royal palaces." In 1756, after the death of the Duchess of Bourbon, the palace was bought by King Louis XV, and in 1764 it was alienated in favor of the Prince of Conde, the grandson of the Duchess of Bourbon. The new owner has decided to significantly expand the palace and make it even more luxurious. In 1768, the building of the mansion l'hhotel de Lassay (Hotel de Lasse) was added to the palace, built simultaneously with the Bourbon Palace for the lover of Duchess Louise-Francoise de Bourbon - Marquis de Lasse. However, the Prince of Conde failed to realize all plans to rebuild the palace - in 1789, the French Revolution began, and immediately after the capture of the Bastille, the prince left France. In 1791, the Bourbon Palace was nationalized, and since 1795, the Council of Five Hundred (the lower house of the French Legislative Assembly) met in it. Since then, the palace has undergone significant reconstruction - the original facade of the building was covered with a classic portico of 12 columns, and in the interval between the old and new facades, a hall was set up for the emperor, in which he prepared for speeches before Parliament. It is said that Napoleon himself was extremely dissatisfied with the rebuilding of the palace and expressed regret that he was no longer an artillery lieutenant, otherwise he would have shot the new facade with a cannon. During the Restoration period (the return of the monarchy in France), Prince Conde was only able to regain the Hotel de Lasse, and had to rent the palace itself. Finally, in 1827, the Bourbon Palace was bought from its former owners by the state to house the Parliament. In this regard, the interior of the palace was significantly redesigned, and bas-reliefs and friezes with allegorical subjects were placed on the pediment and facade of the building, statues of statesmen were installed in front of the palace - the Duc de Sully, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Michel L'Hopital and Henri Francois D'Aguesseau. The library of the National Assembly deserves special attention - its ceiling was painted in the 19th century by Eugene Delacroix, who depicted a cycle of allegorical subjects "The History of Civilization". The library contains the original materials of the trial of Joan of Arc, the manuscripts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Aztec astronomical Codex Borbonicus