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The public square in the 4th arrondissement of Paris that is now the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville (City Hall Plaza) was, before 1802, called the Place de Grève. The French word ''grève'' refers to a flat area covered with gravel or sand situated on the shores or banks of a body of water. The location presently occupied by the square was the point on the sandy right bank of the river Seine where the first riverine harbor of Paris was established. ==The Place de Grève== Later it was used as a public meeting-place and also as a location where unemployed people gathered to seek work. This circumstance accounts for the current French expressions, ''être en grève'' (to be on strike) and ''faire (la) grève'' (to go on strike). However, the principal reason why the ''Place de Grève'' is remembered is that it was the site of most of the public executions in early Paris. The gallows and the pillory stood there. The highest-profile executions took place on the ''grève'', including the gruesome deaths of the assassins François Ravaillac, and Robert-François Damiens, as well as the bandit-rebel Guy Éder de La Fontenelle. In 1310 the Place de Grève was also the site of the execution of the beguine heretic Marguerite Porete. The 22 February 1680, the famous French fortune teller, poisoner and alleged sorceress La Voisin, was burned to death on the square. In the words of Victor Hugo (in ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''), the ''grève'' was "the symbol of medieval and ''ancien régime'' justice: brutal, corrupt, and inadequate." In 1243 Louis IX of France ordered 24 cartloads of Talmud manuscripts to be burned at the square. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville - Esplanade de la Libération」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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