Théâtre du Châtelet

The palace turn prison. This was a castle in the 12th and 13th centuries for French kings. It later became a prison. During the French Revolution it held all the prisoners who were waiting for trial and the execution at the guillotine. There is a shrine to Marie Antoinette. It is built in the banks of the Seine and it would flood so the prison was dank and mouldy. One of the pillars with a black line shows the flood water mark in 1910.Read more