Marie-Antoinette at the Conciergerie & St Chapelle Tour

In the heart of Paris, visit The Conciergerie: the remain of a medieval Royal palace which became one of the main prison during the French Revolution, with the installation of the Revolutionary Court. This mythical palace abandoned by The Kings of France at the end of the XIVth century. Before Versailles, before The Louvre, there was one royal residence in the very heart of Paris : The Palais de la Cité, the Conciergerie.

The Conciergerie can be considered as the most ancient trace of kings in Paris, an heritage from Louis IX and Philip IV , the Iron King.

This ancient medieval palace was turned into prison at the end of the XIV century and during the French Revolution this place became the most terrible prison of France during the Great Terror, the antechamber of the Guillotine.

In this prison, the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, spent her last nine weeks as « prisoner 208 » of the Revolutionary tribunal.

After the visit of the Conciergerie, we will visit one of the most beautiful church of the world, the Sainte Chapelle.
A gem of Gothic style built for Saint Louis to house precious his Christian relics took during his crusades, and including Christ’s crown of thorns he had bought in Venice in 1239.