Discover the Conciergerie, the palace of the French kings of the Middle Ages, which later became the Revolutionary Court and the last prison of the queen Marie-Antoinette!
With this free app you can
- to locate on the plan of this historic building,
- access to the entire text of the guide
- and much more, such as definitions, timeline, etc.
Download the app before you visit the Conciergerie and discover a monument that bears witness to many important hours of French history today:
A wonderful Gothic palace
especially the rooms are from the Palace of the Middle Ages obtained, which were built under Philippe Le Bel (1314): the guard room and the huge hall of the Gens d'Armes, the largest Gothic hall in Europe. Adjacent to finish by Jean Il Le Bon built (1380) Wide-leach kitchen facilities (comma away) with its four huge fireplaces. This is where the meals were prepared for servants of not less than 1 500 people.
From the royal residence to the court late 14th century the kings of France gave up the palace to settle in the Louvre and at Vincennes. The judicial activities developed and prisons were established.
The state prison of the French Revolution Under the Revolution, the Conciergerie with the establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal in 1793 to a high place of justice and detention. Here objects and works of art and multimedia tools can be seen, the evidence of the time of the revolution today: the life of the prisoners, from the very sets unhygienic condition of the crowded, more serious cell to the function of the judiciary during the Revolution and its excesses during the reign of terror.
Marie-Antoinette
The most famous of all the prisoners who were ever imprisoned in the Conciergerie, is without doubt the deposed Queen Marie-Antoinette. 76 days, she was detained here under constant guard. From the Revolutionary Court sentenced to death, she left only to rise to the Revolution Square to the scaffold the Conciergerie on 16 October 1,793th At the Conciergerie you can visit the chapel, which was established at the Rise of her cell during the Restoration. To learn more about their imprisonment and trial. (Garments and objects and works that bear witness to the veneration of their memories are displayed here.)
With this free app you can
- to locate on the plan of this historic building,
- access to the entire text of the guide
- and much more, such as definitions, timeline, etc.
Download the app before you visit the Conciergerie and discover a monument that bears witness to many important hours of French history today:
A wonderful Gothic palace
especially the rooms are from the Palace of the Middle Ages obtained, which were built under Philippe Le Bel (1314): the guard room and the huge hall of the Gens d'Armes, the largest Gothic hall in Europe. Adjacent to finish by Jean Il Le Bon built (1380) Wide-leach kitchen facilities (comma away) with its four huge fireplaces. This is where the meals were prepared for servants of not less than 1 500 people.
From the royal residence to the court late 14th century the kings of France gave up the palace to settle in the Louvre and at Vincennes. The judicial activities developed and prisons were established.
The state prison of the French Revolution Under the Revolution, the Conciergerie with the establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal in 1793 to a high place of justice and detention. Here objects and works of art and multimedia tools can be seen, the evidence of the time of the revolution today: the life of the prisoners, from the very sets unhygienic condition of the crowded, more serious cell to the function of the judiciary during the Revolution and its excesses during the reign of terror.
Marie-Antoinette
The most famous of all the prisoners who were ever imprisoned in the Conciergerie, is without doubt the deposed Queen Marie-Antoinette. 76 days, she was detained here under constant guard. From the Revolutionary Court sentenced to death, she left only to rise to the Revolution Square to the scaffold the Conciergerie on 16 October 1,793th At the Conciergerie you can visit the chapel, which was established at the Rise of her cell during the Restoration. To learn more about their imprisonment and trial. (Garments and objects and works that bear witness to the veneration of their memories are displayed here.)
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