Domaine National du Palais-Royal

This guide to the Domaine National du Palais-Royal in Paris centers on July 12, 1789, when a stuttering young lawyer named Camille Desmoulins climbed onto a café table in this garden and, without missing a word, addressed the crowd. It traces how the garden became the one place in Paris where the king's police had no jurisdiction, from Cardinal Richelieu's palace to the Duke of Orléans's colonnaded arcades of boutiques and gambling dens. You'll also hear about the striped columns installed here two centuries later, and the uproar they caused.