page_title: Historical quarters of Paris
section_title: Le Louvre / Palais Royal
hierarchical_section_title: Historical quarters of Paris / Rive Droite / Le Louvre / Palais Royal
caption_attribution_description: English: Colonne Vendôme. From the Rue de la Paix, at 10:20 on the 10th of August 2005.
context_page_description: Paris is characterised by 19ᵗʰ century design and architecture, but has many areas with structures and design dating far further back. These sections are often not referenced on modern-day maps of Paris, crossing current arrondissements, these quarters are best described and categorised independently of modern administrative boundaries.
  Below is a list of quarters that have developed or retained a character of their own, usually identifiable by their commercial or cultural activity, and often named for a neighbourhood landmark.
context_section_description: The Louvre, once Paris' second Royal Palace, is today a museum, garden (Tuileries), and, more recently, a shopping mall and fashion-show centre (Le Carrousel du Louvre). The Palais-Royal just to its north, at its origin a residence of the Cardinal Richelieu, is a walled garden behind its rue de Rivoli facade, with covered and columned arcades that house boutiques forming what could be considered to be Paris' first "shopping arcade". This quarter in general has many 17th- and 18th-century buildings of large standing, as well as some of Paris' more grandiose constructions, namely along the avenue de l'Opéra, from the Haussmann era. The long perspective of massive buildings that make the northern side of the rue de Rivoli, with their covered and columned arcades, are a result of Paris' first attempt at reconstruction in a larger scale in the early 1840s, and today house the quarter's most tourist-oriented shops, boutiques and night-clubs.
caption: Place Vendôme seen from rue de la Paix.
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