The Hôtel de Ville
in Paris, France, is the building housing the city's local administration.
Standing on the place de l'Hotel-de-Ville in the city's IVe arrondissement, it has been
the location of the municipality of Paris since 1357. It serves multiple
functions, housing the local administration, the Mayor of Paris (since 1977),
and also serves as a venue for large receptions. In July 1357, Etienne Marcel, provost
of the merchants of Paris, bought the
so-called maison aux piliers
("House of Pillars") in the name of the municipality on the gently
sloping shingle beach which served as a river port for unloading wheat and wood
and later merged into a square, the Place de Greve, a place where Parisians
often gathered, particularly for public executions. Source
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