Editing Place de la Concorde (section)

=== French Revolution ===
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File:Vue de l'ordre et de la marche des cérémonies 1763.jpg|Ceremony on the Place Louis XV in 1763
File:Execution of Louis XVI.jpg|[[Execution of Louis XVI]] on the future Place de la Concorde on 21 January 1793
File:La fournée des Girondins 10-11-1793.jpg|Execution of the [[Girondins]] on 31 October 1793
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Beginning in 1789, the square was a central stage for the events of the [[French Revolution]]. On 13 July 1789, a mob came to the Hôtel de la Marine and seized a store of weapons, including two old cannon, gifts from the King of Siam, which fired the first shots during the [[storming of the Bastille]] on 14 July 1789. On 11 August 1792, the statue of Louis XV was pulled down and taken to a foundry, where it was melted down. A few months later, a new statue, "Liberty", by the sculptor [[François-Frédéric Lemot]], took its place; it was a figure wearing a red liberty cap and holding a lance. The Place Louis XV ("Louis XV Square") became the Place de la Revolution ("Revolution Square").

In October 1792, the first executions by guillotine in the square took place. The two people who were executed were thieves who had stolen the royal crown diamonds from the Hotel de la Marine. On 21 January 1793, King [[Louis XVI]] was executed there, followed in the same year on 16 October by Queen [[Marie Antoinette]]. As the [[Reign of Terror]] commenced, the guillotine was set up again on 11 May 1793, midway between the Statue of Liberty and the turning bridge at the entrance to the Tuileries Garden, and remained there for thirteen months. Of the 2,498 persons guillotined in Paris during the Revolution, 1,119 were executed on the Place de la Concorde, 73 on the [[Place de la Bastille]] and 1,306 on the [[Place de la Nation]]. Besides Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, others executed on the same site included [[Charlotte Corday]] and [[Madame du Barry]]. During the later days of the Reign of Terror in 1794, [[Georges Danton]], [[Camille Desmoulins]], [[Antoine Lavoisier]], [[Maximilien Robespierre]], and [[Louis de Saint-Just]] were executed there. The last executions, those of the [[Prairial]] riot participants, were carried out on the Place de la Concorde in May 1795.<ref>Hillairet, Jacques, "Connaissance du Vieux Paris" (2017), p. 236</ref>