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Feb 11, 2022 · Claude le Petit wrote in his Chronique scandaleuse ou Paris ridicule that the Place de Grève was an “unhappy piece of ground consecrated to the public where they have executed a hundred times more men than in war”.
Apr 11, 2017 · Claude le Petit wrote in his Chronique scandaleuse ou Paris ridicule that the Place de Grève was an “unhappy piece of ground consecrated to the public where they have executed a hundred times...
- Courtney Traub
The principal reason why the Place de Grève is remembered is that it was the site of most of the public executions in early Paris. The gallows and the pillory stood there.
Claude le Petit wrote in his Chronique scandaleuse ou Paris ridicule that the Place de Grève was an “unhappy piece of ground consecrated to the public where they have massacred a hundred times more than in war.” 14 He himself was executed at the Place de Grève in 1662 for lèse majesté and écrits séditieux.
Place de Grève was not the only place in Paris dedicated to capital executions. Les Halles, the Gibet de Montfaucon, the Butte Saint-Roch or the forecourt of Notre-Dame also hosted this particular justice.
The principal reason why the Place de Grève is remembered is that it was the site of most of the public executions in early Paris. The gallows and the pillory stood there.
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May 16, 2016 · Yet, despite everyone’s grand plans, by the time of Charles IX’s reign — 1560 to 1572 — Hôtel de Ville was still incomplete and problems were plaguing the Place de Grève that affected the construction and completion of the Hôtel de Ville.
