- It’s morphed from a medieval palace to a torture prison to a notorious guillotine way station to a public museum. The Conciergerie was built in the 6th century.
- From this time onwards the Conciergerie had a new role as a seat for parliament, a centre of justice and as a prison. Salle des Gens d'Armes in the Conciergerie.
- Built in a Gothic style, a pioneering work in that period, the Conciergerie stands as a well-preserved evidence of the architecture of the 13th and 14th centuries.
- Charles VII of France installed in the Conciergerie the Parliament of Paris in the fifteenth century and Louis XVI built new buildings.
- Conciergerie. Conciergerie is most famous for being a prison in the 15th century but it was actually constructed in the 14th century.
- ABOVE: A night view of the Conciergerie from the Right Bank of the Seine, with the Eiffel Tower's rotating beacon shining over the roof and chimneys.
- From royal palace to notorious prison during the Revolution, the sumptuous, gothic Conciergerie on the Île de la Cité is charged with history and emotion.
- The Conciergerie looks every inch the forbidding medieval fortress. However, much of the façade was added in the 1850s, long after Marie-Antoinette, Danton and.
- In the early 14th century, the building of the Conciergerie functioned as a royal palace and was known as the Palais de la Cité.
- The Conciergerie is located on the Île de la Cité, in Paris. This marvelous Gothic building preceded the Palais du Louvre as the royal seat of power in France but...