Petit Luxembourg
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The Petit Luxembourg is an hôtel particulier and the official residence of the President of the French Senate. It is located at 17–17 bis, Rue de Vaugirard, just west of the Luxembourg Palace, which s
West wing of the Petit Luxembourg
Perspective view
Boffrand's staircase
Grand Salon
Musée du Luxembourg
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The Musée du Luxembourg is a museum at 19 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially an art museum located in the east wing of the Luxembourg Palace and
Petit Luxembourg
…noted for the surviving Rococo interiors designed in 1710–1713 by the French architect Germain Boffrand. Further west, at 19 rue de Vaugirard, is the Musée du Luxembourg. The original sixteenth-century building is of obscure origin, but became known as the Hôtel de Luxembourg after its acquisition in 1570 by François…
Façade of the museum
The Luxembourg Museum in the east wing of the Palace, c. 1848