Stock Exchange of Paris

Do you know ? The Paris Stock Exchange, now NYSE Euronext, is the official stock market in France. There is no longer a physical stock exchange in Paris. Indeed, the CAC 40 is indexed by NYSE Euronext, which belongs to the NYSE company. The historic place she occupied for a long time in Paris is the Brongniart Palace. The presence of women was prohibited there from the start, until 1967.

In 1808, Napoleon I laid the first stone of the Palais Brongniart, designed by the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart and intended to welcome the Paris Stock Exchange, an institution considered to be of public order and apprehended by the Emperor as the "thermometer of trust public”.

Towards the middle of the 19th century, the Paris Stock Exchange was drawn into the great speculation on the first railways, which had just London and was transmitted via the first inter-stock exchange links, such as carrier pigeons and the telegraph.

Later, at the end of the 19th century, the Parisian financial center experienced very significant global influence, with the large capital transactions such as Suez, Panama, and Russian Loans.

After 9 years of closure due to war, the Paris Stock Exchange reopened on June 27, 1949.