The Luxembourg Palace is located at 15 rue de Vaugirard in the
6th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs
of the French architect Salomon de Brosse to be the royal residence of the
regent Marie de Médicis, mother of Louis XIII of France. After the Revolution
it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and
subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled (1835–1856) by Alphonse de Gisors.
Since 1958 it has been the seat of the French Senate of the Fifth Republic.
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