In returning from the chapel, notice on the outside, from the court to the
south, the apparently empty and useless porch, supporting a small room,
which is the one through whose grated window Louis XI. used to watch the
elevation.
The Hotel de Ville and the Conciergerie
By Augustus J. C. Hare
[Footnote: From "Walks In Paris." By arrangement with the
publisher, David McKay. Copyright, 1880.]
It was Etienne Marcel, Mayor of Paris, who first established the municipal
council at the Place de Greve, at that time the only large square in
Paris. In July, 1357, he purchased as a Hostel de Ville the Maison aux
Piliers, which had been inhabited by Clemence d'Hongrie, widow of Louis le
Hutin, and which afterward took the name of Maison du Dauphin from her
nephew and heir, Guy, Dauphin de Viennois.
In 1532 a new Hotel de Ville was begun and finished by the architect Marin
de la Vallee in the reign of Henri IV. This was so much altered by
successive restorations and revolutions that only a staircase, two
monumental chimney-pieces in the Salle du Trone, and some sculptured
doorways and other details remained from the interior decorations in the
old building at the time of its destruction.
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