Place du Carrousel

The place of the Carousel (ka-rou-zèl) is a place of Paris located vis-a-vis the Louvre. It holds its name of a type of military spectacle of horsemanship.

History

When it was decided to link, by the gallery of the edge of water, the countryman castle of the Tuileries with the old man Louvre, space between the two buildings corresponded to a true district. Coming from Louvre, one met initially the street Fromentau then the street Saint-Thomas-of-Louvre (with its church) separated from the street Saint-Nicaise by the Hôpital of Quinze-Vingts creates by a brother of Saint Louis. The street of the Nettles was perpendicular for them, which skirted the gallery of the edge of water.

The place of the Carousel was tightened between many masonries and groups of buildings of which one which bordered the street of the Carousel, joined the street of the Scale to emerge street Saint-Honore. It dealt with the court of Tileries, itself subdivided in three parts carrying each one its name: court of the Princes (side house of Flora), Royal court and court of the Stables. This concentration of buildings of heterogeneous nature, this architectural variegation narrowed considerably the scene on which was going to be played the capital and final act of August 10th 1792.

August 10th, 1792

Surrounded by narrow streets and biscornues, the place of the Carousel and its opposite, the court of the palate of Tileries, constituted a true bottleneck for an excited crowd, come from all the corners of boosted Paris, and which goes, quite naturally to butt against the palate of Tileries that the Swiss ones, by a conscientiousness plugs and desperate, vainly will defend. The paid price will be heavy: some 700 corpses given up on the ground, in the ensanglantée court, the accesses of the garden, and on the terraces at the edge of water. Napoleon Bonaparte which, like any Paris, had come to attend the foreseeable fall of monarchy, will learn a lesson from this vision of horror: an instinctive hatred of crowd.

The escape in Varennes, from June 22nd to 25th 1791

Certain historians could advance that it is with the special character, still medieval composite and of this district made up of lanes, bottoms of bag and tortuous alleys that Marie-Antoinette of Habsbourg-Lorraine had her delay at the time of the appointment of the street of the Scale, the evening of the escape with Varennes the June 20th 1791. Not very familiar of this populeux Paris, it was mislaid there.

Installation of the guillotine

The August 21st 1792, one there installs the Guillotine which will remain there until May 11th 1793, except for the execution, places Revolution (current Place of the Harmony), on October 13rd, 1792, robbers of the jewels of the and Crown of France to the Furniture depository (today ministry for the Navy), the January 21st 1793, Louis XVI. On the whole, 35 people were guillotinées there.

Installation of a pyramid dedicated to Jean-Paul Marat

The August 2nd 1793, one installs, with the site of the guillotine, a pyramid out of wooden surmounted by an inscription: “With the manes of Marat July 13rd year I. bottom of its underground it made tremble the traitors. A perfidious hand charms it with the love of the people. ” One exhibait there also famous the bath-tub-shoe of Jean-Paul Marat as his inkstand on which some of its one period were conceived most furious calls which was not miserly. The pyramid, the bath-tub and the sign remained until the Thermidor 9 year II.

The place of the Carousel today

The Triumphal arch of the Carousel dominates today this esplanade which, because of disappearance of Tileries in 1883, opened on Paris increasingly more remote. The Triumphal arch of the Carousel was built between 1806 and 1808 to be used as entry of honor with the castle of Tileries.

Guillotinées personalities place of the Carousel

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