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Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France : Reviews of Hôtel de Ville - Yahoo! Travel
This splendid neo-Renaissance-style building is just minutes from the Seine and right in the heart of the capital. In 1260, Louis IX decided to endow Paris wit...
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Hôtel de Ville, Paris - Reviews of Hôtel de Ville - IgoUgo
burned here for sorcery (or, more accurately, for having too much influence). Anne Dubourg (a man) was burned alive for pleading for more humanitarian treatment of heretics under Henry II, and Captain Montgomery met a similar fate. The most famous scene witnessed here must have been the torture and ...
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Hôtel de Ville | Museum/Attraction Review | Paris | Frommers.com
On a large square with fountains and early-1900s lampposts, the 19th-century Hôtel de Ville isn't a hotel, but Paris's grandiose City Hall. The medieval structure it replaced had witnessed countless municipally ordered executions. Henry IV's assassin, Ravaillac, was quartered alive on the squa...
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Hôtel de Ville, Paris
From 1310 on, the Place de Grève was the square were most of the executions in Paris took place. Here people were beheaded, quartered, cooked up or burned at the stake. In 1792, a guillotine was installed. It would prove itself useful during the French Revolution. The last execution took plac...
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