Hôtel de Ville de Lyon
Grand seventeenth-century town hall scarred by fire, revolution, and a revolutionary tribunal's cellars.
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This guide to the Hotel de Ville de Lyon centers on Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, a failed actor once booed off Lyon's stages, who returned in November 1793 with a seat on France's most feared revolutionary tribunal, sent to punish a city that had risen against the Convention. It traces the court he ran from the old consul's chamber here, and the cellars beneath the building where prisoners were marched down that winter. The stone rider above today's entrance, Henri the Fourth, replaced an earlier king pulled down by revolutionaries that same year.
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