3-088-696 - LTL/Heritage Images

The Grand Châtelet, Paris, France, 1655, (1878). Main façade of the fortress built by King Louis VI, (1081-1137) on the right bank of the Seine River. It was rebuilt in stone after the Norman incursions. After its use as a fortress was discarded, it became the Provost of Paris' headquarters, housing prisons and torture chambers. It was demolished in 1808 by order of Napoleon. Copy after an engraving by Matthäus Merian in "Topographia Galliae", by Martin Zeiler. Published Frankfurt, 1655. From "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance" by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.