in 1720 , home of the during most of the 19th and 20th centuries The Paris stock market started taking shape in the early 18th century, and first acquired prominence with trading of
John Law's Company from 1717 to 1721. In 1724, a government decree gave it its first permanent regulation and is occasionally though dubiously taken as the market's starting point. On 5 March 1886,
anarchist Charles Gallo targeted it during the
Paris Stock Exchange bombing, a
propaganda of the deed attack. He entered the building, threw a bomb that failed to explode, and then began shooting at the traders who were selling government bonds. Moreover, until about the middle of the 20th century, a parallel market known as was in operation. Until the late 1980s, the market operated as an
open outcry exchange, with the meeting on the exchange floor of the Palais Brongniart. In 1986, the Paris Bourse started to implement an electronic trading system. This was known generically as
CATS (Computer Assisted Trading System), but the Paris version was called CAC (
Cotation Assistée en Continu). By 1989, quotations were fully automated. The Palais Brongniart hosted the French financial derivatives exchanges
MATIF and
MONEP, until they were fully automated in 1998. In 1988, new legislation was adopted that radically reformed the governance of the Paris stock exchange. Its ownership was transferred to the former ("brokers' society"), which, on the occasion renamed itself as the (SBF, "French Stock Exchange Company"). In 1999, the SBF absorbed what remained of
MATIF and
MONEP and altered its name to . The next year, SBF was a leading participant of the merger that formed
Euronext.
Past locations The Paris securities markets first emerged in rue Quincampoix, a small street near
les Halles in Paris, in the early 18th century. It remained on rue Quincampoix until closed by government decision on , at a time when most of its activity was focused on trading the shares and other securities of
John Law's Company. The turmoil of that year and gradual unraveling of Law's system was accompanied by several relocations of the market, first to the
place Vendôme then to the garden of the
Hôtel de Soissons near les Halles. It eventually relocated in October 1720 in the rear garden of
Hôtel Tubeuf, which by that time was part of the headquarters complex of Law's Company that also included the
Hôtel de Nevers. The market remained on that location until when it suspended operations in the chaotic context of the
French Revolution. The building later became part of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France, which had first been located in the Hôtel de Nevers in the 1720s. The market reopened on in the
Louvre Palace, in
Anne of Austria's former summer apartment on the ground floor of the
Petite Galerie, and stayed there until 9 September 1795. In September 1795, the Bourse again closed for a few months; it reopened in January 1796 in the
church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, then in October 1807, moved to the
Palais-Royal, and finally, in March 1818, to the former . By then, a permanent home for the stock exchange was under construction on an adjacent site, soon known as the
Palais Brongniart for its architect
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart who died before the building was completed. Brongniart had submitted his project, which was a rectangular
neoclassical Roman temple with a giant
Corinthian colonnade enclosing a
vaulted and
arcaded central chamber. His designs were endorsed by
Napoleon and won Brongniart that major public commission at the end of his career. After his death in 1813, the building was completed by
Éloi Labarre from 1813 to 1826. On , the stock exchange finally moved into the Palais Brongniart, which was and remains owned by the City of
Paris. From 1901 to 1905, Jean-Baptiste-Frederic Cavel designed the addition of two lateral wings, resulting in a cruciform plan with innumerable columns. According to the architectural historian Andrew Ayers, these alterations "did nothing to improve the reputation of this uninspiring monument." That building remained the seat of SBF, then Euronext Paris until the latter moved to
La Défense in 2015. The building on rue Cambon was subsequently restructured to house offices of
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