The Paris Hotel de Ville: Robespierre, Napoleon, and Revolution!

Check my other channel Biographics! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ Originally constructed as a 16th Century City Hall, the Hotel de Ville has stood at the epicenter of the wildest events in history. It was on its doorstep that the French Revolution ignited, in its opulent rooms that Robespierre tried to commit suicide, and in its vast corridors that a radical anarchist sect siezed Paris at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw?sub_confirmation=1 Our sister channels: Biographics - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ TopTenz - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M. Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Source/Further reading: Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/place/Paris/The-Hotel-de-Ville The Hotel and the Paris Commune of 1790-92, plus Insurrection of August 10: https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/paris-commune/ Death of Robespierre: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/robespierre-overthrown-in-france July Revolution of 1830: https://www.britannica.com/place/France/The-revolution-of-1830#ref465333 Podcast on July Revolution (multiple episodes): https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2017/04/604-stop-the-presses.html Biographics on Louis-Philippe and July Monarchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVVjRQ5i3E8 1848 and the Second Republic: https://www.britannica.com/place/France/The-Second-Republic-and-Second-Empire Biographics on Napoleon III, 1848 and 1870: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7Bxsqhcps The Paris Commune (1871): https://www.britannica.com/event/Commune-of-Paris-1871 Paris Commune (1871): https://www.thoughtco.com/paris-commune-4147849 Great podcast on the Paris Commune: https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2018/06/86-the-commune.html Liberation of Paris, 1944: https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/24/liberation-of-paris-75th-anniversary-the-story-of-the-french-capital-being-freed-of-nazi-c Early years of Hotel: https://www.geriwalton.com/places-of-french-revolution-hotel-de/