Place Colette | |
Arrondissement: | 1st arrondissement |
Namesake: | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette |
Inauguration Date: | 19 February 1966 |
Former Names: | none |
Place Colette is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
The square is bordered to the north and east by wings of the Palais-Royal (containing, to the north, the Comédie-Française and to the east, the Conseil d'État), to the south by the rue Saint-Honoré and to the west by the rue de Richelieu.[1]
An entrance to the Métro station, serving lines and, is on Place Colette. It was redesigned by Jean-Michel Othoniel as the Kiosque des noctambules (Kiosk of the night-walkers), completed in October 2000 for the centenary of the Métro.
Place Colette had no name (it was simply part of the rue Saint-Honoré) until 1966 when it was named after the writer Colette following a request by her only daughter, Colette de Jouvenel, to André Malraux who was then Minister of Culture.[2]
The café "Le Nemours", in the façade of the Conseil d'État, has been used as a location for several films: