The centrally situated Pont Royal, built for Louis XIV in 1685, commands some splendid panoramas, with the Louvre and the Tuileries Gardens on the Right Bank, the Mus??e d'Orsay on the Left, the Grand and Petit Palais down?­river, and the Palais de l'Institut de France, home of the Aca?­d???­mie Francaise, upstream.