Conciergerie

The Conciergerie is a building in Paris, France, positioned at the west of the lle de la Cite formerly a jail however presently used usually for law courts. It changed into part of the previous royal palace, the Palais de la Cite, which consisted of the Conciergerie, Palais de Justice and the Sainte Chapelle. Hundreds of prisoners in the course of the French Revolution had been taken from the Conciergerie to be carried out by using guillotine at a number of locations round Paris. The western part of the island became originally the site of a Merovingian palace and become recognized initially because the Palais de la Cite.

From the 10th to the 14th centuries, it becomes the main palace of the medieval Kings of France. During the reigns of Louis IX Saint Louis 1214 to 1270 and Philippe IV Philip the Fair 1284 to 1314 the Merovingian palace turned into prolonged and fortified extra appreciably. Louis IX introduced the Sainte Chapelle and related galleries even as Philippe IV created the towered facade on the Seine river facet and a huge corridor. Both are brilliant examples of French religious and secular architecture of the period.