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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 FrancoPrussian War.

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Host Simon Whistler
Author Morris M.
Producer Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer Shell Harris

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Source/Further reading:

Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/place/Pari...
The Hotel and the Paris Commune of 179092, plus Insurrection of August 10: https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolu...
Death of Robespierre: https://www.history.com/thisdayinh...
July Revolution of 1830: https://www.britannica.com/place/Fran...
Podcast on July Revolution (multiple episodes): https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/20...
Biographics on LouisPhilippe and July Monarchy:    • Louis Philippe: The Last King of the ...  
1848 and the Second Republic: https://www.britannica.com/place/Fran...
Biographics on Napoleon III, 1848 and 1870:    • Napoleon III: The Forgotten Bonaparte  
The Paris Commune (1871): https://www.britannica.com/event/Comm...
Paris Commune (1871): https://www.thoughtco.com/pariscommu...
Great podcast on the Paris Commune: https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/20...
Liberation of Paris, 1944: https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/24/l...
Early years of Hotel: https://www.geriwalton.com/placesof...