The
Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, a former Parisian town house of the
royal family of Bourbon, was located on the
right bank of the
Seine on the rue d'Autriche, between the to the west and the Church of to the east. It was constructed in the 14th century, not long after the
Capetian Kings of France enlarged the fortress of the Louvre in order to use it as a royal residence. On two 1550 maps it is shown simply as the
Hôtel de Bourbon, but by 1652, as the Petit-Bourbon on the map of (see below). The Bourbons took control of France in 1589, at which time they also acquired the Louvre.