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Bourse du Commerce
2, rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris
Châtelet-Les Halles, Les Halles
Châtelet-Les Halles
Hours: Open daily 9h - 18h; closed Saturday, Sunday, and holidays. Proof of identity required.
A Bit of History
The French Commodities Exchange, La Bourse du Commerce is a round building
built in the 18th century, and later modified in the 19th. The site however has been
occupied for the last 800 years. Called the Hôtel de Nesle, during the 13th century,
then it became the Hôtel de Bohème, then Hôtel de Orléans.
The mother of St. Louis, Blanche de Castille, died in the Hôtel de Nesle in 1252.
Later, Louis XII lost the building to his chamberlain in a cribbage game. He in turn
converted it to a convent for wayward women. In 1572, Catherine de Medici moved the
convent out, and had Delorme and Bullant construct the Hôtel de la Reine, later
called the Hôtel de Savoy.
The present rotunda built in 1889 replaced a wheat market build during Louis XVI's
reign.
The column to the south of the building is a vestige of the
Hôtel de la Reine, and thought to have been used by
the astrologer Ruggieri as an observatory.
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1. Remnant of the Hôtel de la Reine, built in 1572.
2, rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris
