L'Hôtel de Ville, Hôtel de ville historique de Paris, le logement le bureau du maire et les villes de l'administration. Éclairé par la nuit. La France.
2848 x 4287 px | 24,1 x 36,3 cm | 9,5 x 14,3 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
9 avril 2012
Lieu:
Hôtel de Ville, 4th Arrondissement, Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe.
Informations supplémentaires:
Ever since 1357 the administration of the city of Paris has been located on the site where the Hôtel de Ville stands today. The present building was first conceived in 1533 by King Francis 1 who wanted a new city hall worthy of Paris which had grown to become the largest city in Europe. He appointed two architects, the Italian Dominique de Cortone (nicknamed Boccador) and Frenchman Pierre Chambiges to draw up the plans and they produced a design steeped in the spirit of the Renaissance, tall, spacious, refined and full of light. Building work was not finished until 1628 during the reign of Louis XIII, almost a century after the process was begun. For more than two hundred years the building was at the centre of French history and politics, a silent witness to turbulent times, revolutions and bloodshed with monarchs and governments coming and going and coming back again. And so it was until 1871, the year of the Paris Commune which excercised power briefly for two months before being brutally put down. At the end of the struggle the Hôtel de Ville was a fire gutted and smoking ruin, torched by the communards in their last ditch defence. The reconstruction of the new City hall began in 1873 and continued for the next nineteen years. The work was directed by the architects Théodore Ballu and Éduardo Deperthes who got the contract by winning a public competition.The architects rebuilt the interior of the Hôtel de Ville within the stone shell that had survived the fire. From the outside the new building was a replica of the previous 16th century Renaissance structure but the interior was of an entirely new design and lavishly decorated in contemporary late 19th century style.The restored façade was embellished by the addition of a phalanx of 338 individual statues of famous and worthy Parisians. Some 230 prominent sculptors were commissioned to produce these figures including one Auguste Rodin. The renovation of the Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1892.
