Two architects, Dominique de Cortone, an Italian, Pierre Chambiges, French, designed a building in the spirit of the Renaissance. In 1533, FranÕ_ois I endowed the city with a HÕâtel de Ville which would be worthy of the Parisians. This is where Ravaillac, Henri IV's murderer, was hung, drawn and quartered, and heretics were burned at the stake where speeches were given, noblemen decapitated and crowds and revolutions gathered. Many of Paris' most dramatic events took place in the Place de Greve. Originally, a meeting place of the Water Merchants, the Hotel De Ville or Town Hall, was built on the square in 1357. The site of public uprisings (faire la greve = to strike), political rallies, executions and innumerable festivals and celebrations. A swampy area of the Seine known as La Place de Greve, this site has held a lofty spot in the history of Paris since the fourteenth century.
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