Discover the Conciergerie, the medieval palace of the kings of France became the court at the time of the Revolution and last prison of the queen Marie Antoinette.

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- A splendid Gothic mansion Of the medieval building remain mainly built rooms at the time of Philip the Fair: the guard room and the immense hall of the gendarmes, the largest Gothic hall in Europe. Next door is large kitchens built under John II the Good (around 1380) with four fireplaces which allowed to prepare meals for 1500 servants of the palace.

- First residence of French kings and later the Palace of Justice Kings leave the palace at the end of the fourteenth century to settle in the Louvre and at Vincennes. The legal business is developed and the part of the prison is created.

- Prison of the Revolution At the time of the French Revolution, the Conciergerie become an important place where you do what is right and incarcerate prisoners. In 1793, the Revolutionary Court is created. The route visit presents objects, works and media documenting this era: the lives of prisoners in overcrowded and unsanitary cells and the mechanisms of Justice at the time of the Revolution and the tragic period of Terror.

- Marie-Antoinette's most famous prisoner of the Conciergerie is Marie Antoinette, once Queen of France. Tenuta imprisoned in this place for 76 days, supervised at all times and finally tried before the Revolutionary Court. It will leave the Conciergerie October 16, 1793 to go to the guillotine. You can visit the chapel that was created at the time of the Restoration and the place of his imprisonment and also find out the personal belongings which tradition says to have belonged to the Queen during her imprisonment and others who bear witness of devotion to his next memory to his death .