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Forum venue
The OECD Forum 2007 will be held at the Palais Brongniart. In the heart of Paris, in the business district, between the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre Museum, near famous hotels and department stores, the Palais Brongniart is an exceptional venue that combines modernity and period architecture. Click here for additional information and photos (choose the room you want to see from the menu bar). Plans of the Forum at the Palais Brongniart are also available.
Access to Palais Brongniart
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Entrance: Next to "Bourse" metro station's exit.
By Metro: Line 3 "Bourse" station
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By Bus: 20, 29, 39, 48, 67, 74, 85
Public Parking: Le Parking de la Bourse. Contact: +33 (0)1 42 96 47 04
History of the Palais Brogniart...
Building started on the Palais de la Bourse in 1807, based on plans by the architect Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847), and was completed twenty years later.
Built by order of Napoleon Bonaparte to offer a permanent home to the Paris stock exchange, the Palais Brongniart was inaugurated in 1826 by Count Chabrol, then Prefect of the Seine region. The building originally housed the stock market, the commercial exchange and the commercial court. While promoting its development and influence, the Palais Brongniart remained the home of the Paris stock exchange and its famous "basket" trading floor until the end of the twentieth century.
It now operates as a prestigious conference centre in which many of the rooms have historic associations:
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The Nef has witnessed major stock market events over two centuries; with a height of 24 metres up to its glass ceiling, the Nef is a monumental hall decorated with paintings, woodwork, frescos and parquet floors.
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The hall of honour: the former courtroom of the commercial court, with delicate paintings and reliefs on the ceiling.
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