<p>Saint-Merri | Place de l'Hôtel de Ville
Headquarters of the municipality of Paris since 1357. A huge building was built between 1533 and 1628. In 1871, Communards set fire to the Hôtel de Ville destroying almost all extant public records from the French Revolutionary period. The blaze swallowed the building from the inside, leaving only an empty stone shell.
Reconstruction:
Arch. Théodore Ballu and Édouard Deperthes
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1873-92.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/129231073@N06">Fred Romero</a> from Paris, France
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