Conciergerie (Paris)
The Paris Conciergerie is located in the west of the Île de la Cité in the 1st arrondissement . It belongs to the Palais de la Cité building complex , the newest parts of which are used as the Palace of Justice , and has been open to the public since 1914. A large part of the Conciergerie is now used for Parisian dishes.
history
On the site of the Île de la Cité , the heart of medieval Paris, the residence of the rulers of the Île-de-France or France had been located since the 9th century , Odo of Paris resided here and Hugo Capet judged the royal here Administration ( curia regis ).
In 1358 it came under the uprising Jacquerie to raid Etienne Marcel and his followers to the Palais de la Cité . As a consequence of this attack, the royal family left the palace. King Charles V left the palace partially to the parliament , which housed its judiciary here; this still works today in the (newer) Palais de Justice within the complex.
Other parts of the former palace building became the seat of the royal administrator, a concierge , from which the current name of part of the building complex is derived.
Even before, but especially during the French Revolution , the Conciergerie served as a prison and accommodated up to 1200 prisoners. From April 2, 1793 to May 31, 1795, the sessions of the Revolutionary Tribunal took place there, during which around 2,700 people were sentenced to death , with the public prosecutor ( Accusateur Public ) Fouquier-Tinville playing a leading role. Famous prisoners included Marie Antoinette , Marie-Jeanne Dubarry , François Ravaillac , Georges Danton, and Maximilien de Robespierre . All 2780 people who were sentenced to death during the revolution in Paris are remembered by name in a room.
After the restoration , the Conciergerie continued to be used as a prison, where Michel Ney and Napoléon III were at times . imprisoned.
literature
- Julia Droste-Hennings, Thorsten Droste : Paris. A city and its myth . DuMont-Reiseverlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7701-6090-8 , pp. 116–117.
- Conciergerie - Palace and Prison : Official Visitor Brochure [1]
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '23 " N , 2 ° 20' 44" E