The Grand Châtelet

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Description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ch%C3%A2telet

Descripcion foto: The Grand Châtelet was a stronghold on the site of what is now the Place du Châtelet. The original building on the site may have been a wooden tower constructed by Charles the Bald in 870, but it is known that Louis VI built a stronger structure in stone, a châtelet ('small castle'), in 1130. From 1190 it served as the headquarters of the prévôt de Paris, the official "charged with the protection of royal rights, oversight of royal administration, and execution of royal justice" The area around the Châtelet was physically unpleasant due to the smell of drying blood from nearby slaughterhouses and "the effluent of the great sewers that oozed into the Seine between the Pont Notre-Dame and the Pont-au-Change." It was demolished between 1802 and 1810 as part of the general refurbishment of the area and the Place du Châtelet was created in its place.

Website: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Histoire_des_Fran%C3%A7ais_des_diverses_%C3%A9tats_%281842%29_%2814751017086%29.jpg

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Fecha: 18th Century

Copyright: Monteil, Amans Alexis, 1769-1850, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

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