Galerie de Montpensier

Galerie de Montpensier
	In 2012
Former name(s)	Galerie Montpensier; Galerie des Combats
Type	Gallery
Length	227 m (745 ft)
Width	4.4 m
Location	Paris, France
Arrondissement	1st arrondissement
Quarter	Palais-Royal
Coordinates	48°51′56″N 2°20′15″E / 48.865435°N 2.337416°E
From	Montpensier Peristyle
To	Joinville Peristyle

The Galerie de Montpensier is a gallery in the Palais-Royal in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

Description

The Galerie de Montpensier is one of the galleries with arcades located inside the Palais-Royal. It runs along the western side of the Palais-Royal Garden. It starts at Montpensier Peristyle and ends at Joinville Peristyle.

A passageway starts from the gallery and ends at 24–25 Rue de Montpensier.

The name of the gallery derives from the proximity of the Rue de Montpensier, which was named after Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, the brother of King Louis Philippe I.

The gallery was originally named Galerie Montpensier. It was renamed Galerie des Combats in 1840, before it took its current name.

During the French Revolution, the Café Corazza hosted the Society of the Friends of the Constitution before it chose to gather at the Couvent des Jacobins on the Rue Saint-Honoré. A ballroom named Pince-Cul was located in the underground floor.^[1]
Nos. 57–60: The Café de Foy opened there in 1784 and remained there until its closure in 1863.^[2]
Nos. 51–52: clockmaker Charles Oudin settled there in 1845.
Nos. 48–50: Alfred Hamel founded its jeweller's, goldsmith's and clockmaker's house there in 1879.^[3]

^ Calabre, Isabelle (5–11 April 2007). "Palais-Royal : on joue, boit et lutine…". Votre quartier sous la Révolution. Le Nouvel Obs (in French). No. 2213. p. 21.
^ "Le Café de Foy, les cafés historiques autour du Palais Royal". www.paris-bistro.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
^ "Alfred Hamel. Galerie Montpensier 48.49.50. Palais Royal. Paris" (in French). hôtel Drouot (auction of 21 September 2018, Kiki et Montparnasse Arts Premiers, lot 77), Paris. 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

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