Government Palace (Algiers)

[1] The project to build a new seat for the government of French Algeria was formulated in the context of the 100th anniversary of the Invasion of Algiers in 1830.

It encloses an entertainment and cinema venue, the salle des fêtes, which was built in 1929 and is now named after Ibn Khaldun.

[3] On 4 June 1958, newly arrived Prime Minister of France Charles de Gaulle gave a major speech from the Government Palace's balcony, where he uttered the ambiguous sentence that immediately became iconic, Je vous ai compris [fr] ("I have understood you").

The Government Palace crowns the Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti, a monumental perspective created in the early 20th century on former military grounds, which also includes the Grande Poste d'Alger.

[4] The plaza or Forum in front of the Government Palace, formerly an open space but now closed to the public,[1] overlooks Algiers with a broad view towards the sea.