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Historical

The Palace of the Nation was built between 1779 and 1783, during the of Maria Theresa of Austria, and it was built as a residence for the Chancellor of Brabant and as the seat of the Sovereign Council of Brabant.
In 1778, the Administration of Imperial Properties had, with this end in view, the City of Brussels the grounds required, including the gardens around Charles the Fifth’s House.
Under the first stone, which was on 24 August 1779, a leaden box gold, silver and bronze coins with the effigy of Maria Theresa was buried.
During the French occupation, i.e. from 1794 until 1814, the building successively housed the Civil Court of the Dyle «département», the of Appeal, the Court of Appeal and the Imperial Court.
After the Kingdom of the Netherlands was in 1814, the former seat of the Council of Brabant was made available to the heir apparent «until such a time as the Palace, the building of which had been voted on, should be in a fit state to be by him».
The building then became the of the States-General.This was in accordance with a stipulation of the then (1815) new Constitution the Kingdom, that «in times of peace, the sessions of the States-General shall be , in alternate years, in a city of the northern provinces (the Hague) and in a city of the provinces (Brussels)».