{{Short description|Square in Paris, France}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use British English|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox street | name = Place Colette | marker_image = | image = Plaque Place Colette - Paris I (FR75) - 2021-05-31 - 1.jpg | arrondissement = 1st arrondissement | coordinates = {{Coord|48.86322|2.33590|display=inline,title}} | namesake = Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | inauguration_date = 19 February 1966 | former_names = none }} The '''Place Colette''' is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
==Location and access== The square is bordered to the north and east by wings of the Palais-Royal (containing, to the north, the Comédie-Française and to the east, the Conseil d'État), to the south by the Rue Saint-Honoré and to the west by the Rue de Richelieu.<ref name="paris.fr">{{cite web |url=http://www.v2asp.paris.fr/commun/v2asp/v2/nomenclature_voies/Voieactu/2186.nom.htm |title=Place Colette |publisher=Mairie de Paris |lang=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019223612/http://www.v2asp.paris.fr/commun/v2asp/v2/nomenclature_voies/Voieactu/2186.nom.htm |archive-date=19 October 2020}}</ref>
An entrance to the {{stl|Paris Métro|Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre}} Métro station, serving lines 18px|alt=1 and 18px|alt=7, is on the Place Colette. It was redesigned by Jean-Michel Othoniel as the ''Kiosque des noctambules'' (Kiosk of the night-walkers), completed in October 2000 for the centenary of the Métro.
==History== The Place Colette had no name (it was simply part of the Rue Saint-Honoré) until 1966 when it was named after the writer Colette following a request by her only daughter, Colette de Jouvenel, to André Malraux who was then Minister of Culture.<ref name="paris.fr" /><ref>{{cite book |lang=fr |first=Claude |last=Malécot |title=Le Monde de Colette au Palais-Royal: Photographies |location=Paris |publisher=Centre des monuments nationaux |year=2005 |page=20 |isbn=2-85822-802-7}}.</ref>
==Film location== The café "Le Nemours", in the façade of the Conseil d'État, has been used as a location for several films: *''Conversations with My Gardener'' (2007) *''The Tourist'' (2010) *''The Intouchables'' (2011)
==References== {{Reflist}}
Colette Category:Buildings and structures in the 1st arrondissement of Paris Category:Colette
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