Galerie Vivienne, covered arcade on rue des Petits-Champs since 1823

The Galerie Vivienne, a covered arcade on rue des Petits-Champs, was built in 1823 by Louis-Auguste Marchoux, president of the Chamber of Notaries. The architect François-Jacques Delannoy gave it a neoclassical Pompeian decor beneath a glass roof. Opened under the name Marchoux, it took the name Vivienne in 1825.

Between the Palais-Royal, the Bourse and the Grands Boulevards, it drew tailors, bootmakers, wine sellers, the Petit-Siroux bookshop founded in 1829 and the Cosmorama. Vidocq lived at number 13. In 1859 Ermance Marchoux, sculptor of the two statues at the entrance, left it to the Institut de France to support Prix de Rome laureates.

The arcade declined as trade moved towards the Madeleine. In 1880 a grocery opened that would become the Caves Legrand. In the 1960s the artist Huguette Spengler bought several shops; the arrival of Jean-Paul Gaultier and Yuki Torii in 1986 brought it back to life. It was renovated in 2016.

Listed as a historic monument since 1974, the 176-metre arcade keeps Giandomenico Facchina’s mosaics, its rotunda and its original glass dome. It links rue des Petits-Champs, rue de la Banque and rue Vivienne, with cafés, a bookshop, fashion and interiors.