Bourse: history and sights
Served by: metro line 3.
Did you know?
Serves the Palais Brongniart, the former Paris Stock Exchange built under Napoleon in the style of a Greek temple, a symbol of the capital's 19th-century financial power.
Anecdote
Open-outcry trading took place inside this palace until 1987, before markets became fully computerised.
Around Bourse
- Fontaine Louvois, 230 m away — An 1844 fountain by Visconti honouring four great French rivers, the Seine, Loire, Garonne and Saône, in the Square Louvois.
- Place des Victoires, 350 m away — A circular square from 1685 designed by Hardouin-Mansart to showcase an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, one of Paris's five royal squares.
- Palais Brongniart, 40 m away — The former Paris Stock Exchange, built under Napoleon in the style of a Greek temple.
- Passage des Panoramas, 280 m away — One of the oldest covered passages in Paris, opened in 1799, lined with historic shops and restaurants.
- Bibliothèque nationale Richelieu, 220 m away — The historic site of the French National Library, with its splendid Labrouste reading room open to the public.