From the Place de la Concorde, Concorde bridge leads directly to the Palais Bourbon, seat of the French National Assembly.

The building was built between 1722 and 1728 at the request of the Duchess Louise de Bourbon, daughter of Louis XIV. Several architects have occurred during construction, Giardini and died prematurely and continued Cailleteau Aubert and Gabriel, who concluded. In 1764 the Prince of Condé undertook an expansion that lasted until the time of the Revolution.

The building is a palace in the style of the Grand Trianon at Versailles. In 1791 it was confiscated and declared a national asset. In 1794 it housed the Ecole Polytechnique, before being affected in 1795 as headquarters of the Council of Five Hundred, which were undertaken for renovation, by architect Fontaine.It was Napoleon who under the plans of Bernard Poyet undertook the renovation of the north facade, adding twelve Greek-style columns, tracing a kind of symmetry with the columns of the Church of the Madeleine, on the right bank. The imposing allegorical pediment was originally sculpted by Chaudet and represented Napoleon on his horse giving the Legislature the flags won in the battle of Austerlitz. But the return of the Bourbons to the throne this pediment was replaced by a scene highlighting the constitutional charter that Louis XVIII had given the French, carved by Evariste Fragonard. In turn, the July Monarchy the latter replaced by the current handball: France standing in front of his throne, accompanied by the Force and Justice, calling for the elite to create laws, made by Jean Pierre Cortot.

After modifications to the interior, the palace became the Restoration and the Second Empire home of the different Chambers of Deputies. It also works in the Palais Bourbon Museum of the National Assembly, which has a valuable library which the funds were formed with goods confiscated from aristocrats, including manuscripts of Rousseau and the Codex Borbonicus, valuable document Aztec religious in nature.
Since 1879 is the headquarters of the National Assembly of the French Republic.