La Conciergerie

The central location of Ile De La Cite on the Seine drew a Galic Tribe, the Parisi, to the place they called Lutetia around 300BC. Settling on the island, they built wood bridges to the mainland. When Caesar's conquest hit Paris around 50 BC, the Romans moved the hub to the Left Bank, but even as late as the 4th century AD, Roman governors still slept on a palace on the island. Frankish kings took over that palace, now known as the Conciergerie, a couple of centuries later, and it remained a royal residence until 1358 when Charles V decided to build the Louvre across the Seine.
Named after the official who administered the palace, it has served as a prison and a tribunal hall since the 14th century. However; its most horrific period came in late 18th century when the Revolutionary Court issued 2780 death proclamations from its halls. Much of the nobility passed through its cells, but its most famous resident was Marie Antoinette, who spent her final days here before being Guillotined (Seeing that mannequin in mourning clothes in her cell being watched by a National Guard soldier gave me the creeps!). The revolutionary Court disbanded after the execution of Robespierre who became the last victim of the Terror he had himself initiated.
Nowadays, the Conciergerie is just the basement of the Palais de Justice.

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[DerVomFreitag]

wow - nice to remember me my days in Parys (every year as pupil in holidays) it's hogh time to come back

Thanks for your videos

[travisangeli]

great video of the beautiful palace in splendid ile de la cite...when in paris i heard from a beautiful young lady tour guide before palace of Louvre, kings of france lived in this palace:)

the Palace...iles de la cite are facinating, real wonder, unique:) i wanna be in paris now!:) soon i'll go there.

Armand

[DerVomDonnerstag5]

this is a very good video! you have captured the scary atmosphere of this place, that can be felt by people who are not into the history, too....

[EROSGODOFGAYS]

I always found it odd that the French commoners would use such a building to house terror and death. Parisians today must burn the lights at night so brightly in an effort to cover and forget its history.