Bibliotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris

From Paris Hotels Reviews

Bibliotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris

Just across from the Musée Carnavalet on rue des Francs-Bourgeois stands the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, house in the splendid sixteenth-century Hôtel Lamoignon and safeguarding centuries’ worth of texts and picture books about the city. Next to the Lamoignon, on rue Pavée – so called because it was among the first of Paris’s streets to be paved, in 1450 – was the site of La Force prison, where many of the Revolution’s victims were incarcerated, including the Princesse de Lamballe, who was lynched in the massacres of September 1792 and her head presented on a stake to her friend Marie-Antoinette.