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Originally constructed as a 16th Century City Hall, the Hotel de Ville has stood at the epicenter of the wildest events in history. It was on its doorstep that the French Revolution ignited, in its opulent rooms that Robespierre tried to commit suicide, and in its vast corridors that a radical anarchist sect siezed Paris at the end of the Franco-Prussian War.
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Source/Further reading:
Britannica: [ Ссылка ]
The Hotel and the Paris Commune of 1790-92, plus Insurrection of August 10: [ Ссылка ]
Death of Robespierre: [ Ссылка ]
July Revolution of 1830: [ Ссылка ]
Podcast on July Revolution (multiple episodes): [ Ссылка ]
Biographics on Louis-Philippe and July Monarchy: [ Ссылка ]
1848 and the Second Republic: [ Ссылка ]
Biographics on Napoleon III, 1848 and 1870: [ Ссылка ]
The Paris Commune (1871): [ Ссылка ]
Paris Commune (1871): [ Ссылка ]
Great podcast on the Paris Commune: [ Ссылка ]
Liberation of Paris, 1944: [ Ссылка ]
Early years of Hotel: [ Ссылка ]
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