Place de l'Hotel-de-Ville
September 25th 2012 The Hotel-de-Ville is the present seat of the Paris city government. The building is another example of 19th.-century architecture. It's exterior is embellished with 146 statues, among them bronze effigies of the sentries who patrolled the perimeter of the city wall during the Middle Ages. Centered in the granite on the square is the image of a boat, the city symbol, adopted from the 13th-cent
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