[1] In September 2000, the Paris Bourse joined the Amsterdam, Lisbon and Brussels stock exchanges to form Euronext.

[4] Brongniart had spontaneously submitted his project, which was a rectangular neoclassical Roman temple with a giant Corinthian colonnade enclosing a vaulted and arcaded central chamber.

His designs were greatly admired by Napoleon and won Brongniart a major public commission at the end of his career.

"[4] From the second half of the 19th century, official stock markets in Paris were operated by the Compagnie des agents de change, directed by the elected members of a stockbrokers' syndical council.

Officially, the agents de change could not trade for their own account nor even be a counterpart to someone who wanted to buy or sell securities with their aid; they were strictly brokers, that is, intermediaries.

In Paris, only agents de change could receive a commission, at a rate fixed by law, for acting as an intermediary.

This was known generically as CATS (Computer Assisted Trading System), but the Paris version was called CAC (Cotation Assistée en Continu).

Following the collapse of John Law's Mississippi Company in 1721, the Paris bourse was located in his Hôtel de Nevers from 24 September 1724 to 27 June 1793, when it suspended operations in the chaotic context of the French Revolution.

It reopened on 10 May 1795 in the Louvre Palace, in Anne of Austria's former summer apartment on the ground floor of the Petite Galerie,[8]: 73  and stayed there until 9 September 1795.

[9] In September 1795, the Bourse again closed for a few months; it reopened in January 1796 in the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, then in October 1807, moved to the Palais-Royal, and finally, in March 1818, to the former Couvent des Filles-Saint-Thomas [fr], adjacent to the site where the Palais Brongniart was already in construction.

The Premier Marché, formerly called the Official List, includes large French and foreign companies, and most Bond issues.

The SBF-FCI index is based on a selection of convertible bonds that represent at least 70% of the total capitalization of this market, calculated twice daily.