L'Assemblée Nationale (The French Parliament)

​Another place I was interested in seeing was the French parliament. Although I had lived in France prior to my February trip, I had never visited the parliament. I hopped off the Paris Métro and peeked in the evening. The building is large and bustling in the evening. Across the street is “Les Républicains” headquarters, the party founded in 2002 by the French president Jacques Chirac. Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was also a member of this party and was instrumental in changing its name from Union for a Popular Movement to “Les Républicains.”