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The palace was originally built for Louis XIV 's legitimized daughter the duchesse de Bourbon, to a design by an Italian architect Giardini , approved by Jules Hardouin-Mansart . Giardini oversaw the actual construction from 1722 until his death in 1724 , after which Jacques Gabriel took over, assisted by L'Assurance and other designers, until its completion in 1728 . Rather than a Palace , for it was not a royal seat of power, the French termed it a ''maison de plaisance'' overlooking the Seine , facing the Tuileries to the east and the developing Champs-Élysées on the west. At the start it was composed of a principal block with simple wings ending in matching pavilions. Bosquets of trees—planted in orderly rank and file—and Parterre s separated it from the nearby Hôtel de Lassay. In 1756 Louis XV bought it for the Crown, then sold it to the grandson of the Duchess, Louis Joseph, Prince Of Condé , for whom Jacques-Germain Soufflot directed an enlargement in 1765 . During the French Revolution the Palais Bourbon was nationalized, and the Council Of The Five Hundred met in the palace from 1798 . Then, as part of Napoleon 's plans for a more monumental Paris, Fontanes, the president of the ''Corps législatif'' as it was now called, commissioned the magnificent pedimented portico, added to the front of the Palais that faces the Place de la Concorde from the south. It mirrors the similar classicizing portico of the Madeleine , visible at the far end of the rue Royale. In a symptom of the political tone of the Bourbon , later a Deputy himself. The Chamber of Deputies elected in 1846 was abruptly disbanded by the February Revolution, which oversaw an unprecedented direct election by universal suffrage to convoke a Constituent Assembly that was followed by a National Legislative Assembly in 1849. The adjacent Hôtel De Lassay , connected by a gallery to the Palais Bourbon, serves as the official residence of the National Assembly's President . EXTERNAL LINKS |