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In July 1357, Étienne Marcel, provost of the merchants (i.e. mayor) of Paris, bought the so-called maison aux piliers ("House of Pillars") in the name of the municipality on the gently sloping shingle beach which served as a river port for unloading wheat and wood and later merged into a square, the Place de Grève ("Strand Square"), a place where Parisians often gathered, particularly for ...
Marsaud was born on 31 July 1977 in Le Blanc-Mesnil, Seine-Saint-Denis. [1] His mother was a librarian. His father, Jacques Marsaud, was a regional civil servant, a general commune secretary in Noisy-le-Sec and Saint-Denis, later on a director general of services at Val-de-Marne's departmental council and then at the Plaine Commune agglomeration community (fr: EPT).
Paris: Hôtel de Ville, Paris: More images. Paris: 1357 50 metres (164 ft) Base Mérimée: PA00086319, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French).
Portraying the events of the July Revolution on 31 July 1830, it depicts the Duke of Orleans arriving at the Hôtel de Ville, the city hall of Paris to the acclaim of the city's crowds. Charles X, a cousin of Orleans, was overthrown and he and his direct heirs were driven into exile.
The Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération is a public square in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, located in front of the Hôtel de Ville. Before 1802, it was called the Place de Grève. The French word grève refers to a flat area covered with gravel or sand situated on the shores or banks of a body of water.
Ville de Paris may refer to: Paris; French ship Ville de Paris, several ships; HMS Ville de Paris; La Ville de Paris; Ville de Paris (department store), Los Angeles, ...
The Hôtel de Ville, Paris, the city hall. Although the municipal council was recreated in 1834, Paris, for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, along with the larger Seine département of which it was a centre — was under the direct control of the state-appointed prefect (préfet) of the Seine department until 1968. From 1968 to 1977, Paris ...
Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil] ⓘ, literally "City Hall") is a rapid transit station on lines 1 and 11 of the Paris Métro. It is named after the nearby Hôtel de Ville de Paris (City Hall) and is located within the fourth arrondissement of Paris.