Discover the Conciergerie, the medieval palace of the kings of France became the Revolutionary Court and last Marie Antoinette in prison.
With this free application,
- locate you on the map of the monument;
- access to the full text of the trail
- and get additional content definitions, timelines ...
Download it before your visit to the Conciergerie, and you will discover a large monument witness hours of French history:
- A splendid Gothic palace. The Palace of the medieval city still mainly halls built under Philip the Fair (around 1314) the guard room and the huge room of arms People, the largest Gothic hall in Europe. Adjoining the vast kitchens built under John II (1380), with their 4 fireplaces, allowed to prepare meals for 1500 palace servants.
- From the royal residence at the courthouse. The kings of France abandoning the palace at the end of the fourteenth century to settle in the Louvre and Vincennes. The judicial activity developed there, and prisons are managed.
- Revolutionary Prison. Under the French Revolution, the Conciergerie became a Mecca of justice and detention in 1793 with the installation of the Revolutionary Court. The course of this visit objects, works and multimedia tools that demonstrate the revolutionary period, since the lives of prisoners in unsanitary and crowded prisons to operation of the Revolutionary Justice and his runaway during the Terror.
- Marie Antoinette. The most famous prisoner of the Conciergerie is Marie Antoinette, former queen of France. 76 days incarcerated in the Conciergerie, kept to constantly view and then tried by the Revolutionary Court, she will not leave the Conciergerie as from the guillotine to 16 October 1793. At the Conciergerie, you can visit the chapel at the time appointed Restoration to the location of his cell, understand his detention and trial, and discover a set of clothes, objects deemed to have belonged to the Queen during her detention, or works testifying to the worship of his memory.
With this free application,
- locate you on the map of the monument;
- access to the full text of the trail
- and get additional content definitions, timelines ...
Download it before your visit to the Conciergerie, and you will discover a large monument witness hours of French history:
- A splendid Gothic palace. The Palace of the medieval city still mainly halls built under Philip the Fair (around 1314) the guard room and the huge room of arms People, the largest Gothic hall in Europe. Adjoining the vast kitchens built under John II (1380), with their 4 fireplaces, allowed to prepare meals for 1500 palace servants.
- From the royal residence at the courthouse. The kings of France abandoning the palace at the end of the fourteenth century to settle in the Louvre and Vincennes. The judicial activity developed there, and prisons are managed.
- Revolutionary Prison. Under the French Revolution, the Conciergerie became a Mecca of justice and detention in 1793 with the installation of the Revolutionary Court. The course of this visit objects, works and multimedia tools that demonstrate the revolutionary period, since the lives of prisoners in unsanitary and crowded prisons to operation of the Revolutionary Justice and his runaway during the Terror.
- Marie Antoinette. The most famous prisoner of the Conciergerie is Marie Antoinette, former queen of France. 76 days incarcerated in the Conciergerie, kept to constantly view and then tried by the Revolutionary Court, she will not leave the Conciergerie as from the guillotine to 16 October 1793. At the Conciergerie, you can visit the chapel at the time appointed Restoration to the location of his cell, understand his detention and trial, and discover a set of clothes, objects deemed to have belonged to the Queen during her detention, or works testifying to the worship of his memory.
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