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The Conciergerie is the oldest surviving part of the Palais de la Cite, the riverside palace that was home to the kings of France for more than three hundred years before they moved to the Louvre. Its dark towers and vast vaulted halls date from the Middle Ages, and the corner Tour de l'Horloge carries the first public clock ever installed in Paris. After the kings departed, the building became a court of justice and a prison. During the French Revolution it was transformed into the holding place and courtroom of the Revolutionary Tribunal, earning the grim nickname of the antechamber to the guillotine. Its most famous prisoner was Marie Antoinette, held here for two and a half months before her execution in 1793. Today the Conciergerie is a national monument, where the queen's cell has become a memorial chapel.
Wissenswertes
- 1370 year — Charles V installed the first public clock in Paris on its corner tower
- 1793 year — Marie Antoinette was held here before her execution by guillotine
- 2780 prisoners — Were condemned by the Revolutionary Tribunal that sat within these walls
📍 Boulevard du Palais 2, 75001, Paris