Editing Conciergerie (section)

===Kitchen===
[[File:Paris Conciergerie kitchen fireplace.jpg|150px|right|Fireplace in the kitchen pavilion]] 
The kitchen pavilion was added in about 1353, shortly after the other large halls. Placed in the northwest corner, it was set slightly apart from the rest of the building, to reduce the risk of fire. It was originally installed on two levels, with the food of the royal family and guests prepared on the upper level, and for the staff on the lower level. When the king was in residence, meals were prepared in a large hearth on the upper floor, or prepared in the lower kitchen and taken upstairs on an outside ramp, no longer extant. The kitchen originally had eight large windows, but all but two were walled up after it became a prison. Sometimes both the upper and lower kitchens were employed for an event, such as the Banquet of the Three Kings on 6 January 1378, held by [[Charles V of France|Charles V]] to welcome his uncle, [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor]], and his cousin [[Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia|Wenceslaus]], [[King of the Romans]]. The upstairs and downstairs kitchens worked together to prepare a banquet of three courses with ten dishes in each course, served in the Grand Hall to the royal guests and to eight hundred German and French knights.{{sfn|de Parseval|Mazeau|2019|pp=14-15}}