Palais de Justice, Paris

Did you get through all right, sir? Yes, yes, yes.

That young woman in the corner, she's been watching the Palais de Justice the whole time she's been here.

Yes.

I noticed her,

The convention fall into line.

And so it is that two days later, on the 2nd of April, Danton and Desmoulins are led into the Palais de Justice for trial by the tribunal.

And as with Hebert, the committee have muddied the waters by throwing in a load of random people, bankers and things.

There's a Dutchman, a Belgian, there's two Moravians, there's a Dane and there's a Spaniard.

And actually what follows, the trial.

The trial is one of the great set pieces in all French history.

So it's held in the Palais de Justice.

It's packed.

And it's here in the early hours of the 2nd of August 1793 that she arrives in her new home, which is the Conciergerie.

And we mentioned it briefly, but just to give a bit more detail about it, this had served as a royal prison since the 14th century, and it occupies the, the kind of the lower level of the building complex, the Palais de Justice, that also houses the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Yeah.

So that had been set up back in the early hours of the 11th of March at the urging of Danton to try cases without appeal.

The Hotel Dieu excavation is running simultaneously with other digs, according to a report from the PAST magazine.

in the forecourt of Notre-Dame and inside the Palais de Justice or within a few hundred meters of each other on Ile-la-Cité, an unprecedented opportunity to improve understanding of this historic area from the origins of Gallic and Roman occupation to the development of medieval Paris and the creation of the modern city.

The wall itself will eventually be dismantled, a delicate operation given the fragility of the stone and timber, with a cost to be made for future public reconstruction.

In RAP, France's National Institute for Preventive Archaeology said on its site that some of the elements will ultimately go on display in a Paris museum.

No, it's extremely rare.

Uh, we're currently on a cycle of digs, uh, with the Parvis Notre Dame, uh, Palais de Justice, and Hôtel-Dieu, where we can go deeper than ever before in any other dig that's happened on Île de la Cité.

We're talking six meters, uh, minimum, probably even deeper if we found the foundation of the walls.

We've never been that deep on Île de la Cité.

First, Marat took

me down to the Prefecture of Police in the Palais de Justice, where I saw how the French do it.

And you know something? They do it just like us.

In five minutes, they had a dragnet out for Jerry Collier.

Shall we go? The End

Now back to The Adventures of the Falcon.

If you're planning a trip to Paris this summer, let me tip you off about the Palais de Justice.

Go out of your way to miss it.

He says, "Fine, bring it on.

I'll face the trial." And his trial is held at the Palais de Justice on the 24th of April, and for the Girondin, it's a total fiasco.

The prosecutor, who's a guy called Fouquier-Tinville, we will hear more about him in future episodes, he's a Montagnard supporter, and he lets Marat basically hold court, you know, speak at length, rant and rave.

Marat says, you know, "I did say things against the convention, but my remarks have been taken out of context.