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==19th century to present== <gallery mode="packed" heights="200px"> File:Adrien Dauzats - La Conciergerie pendant les travaux de reconstruction du Palais de Justice - P1512 - Musée Carnavalet.jpg|Conciergerie under reconstruction - 1857-58 (Musée Carnavalet) File:Paris-FR-75-La Conciergerie-CPA-05.jpg|Interior of Conciergerie in 1936 </gallery> After the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Restoration of the Bourbons]] in 1814 and again in 1815, after the [[Hundred Days]] reign of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], the Conciergerie returned to its role as a courthouse and prison. Its prisoners included [[Marshal Ney]], one of Napoleon's Generals, who was sentenced there for breaking an oath to King [[Louis XVIII]] and joining Napoleon's during the Hundred Days; [[Georges Cadoudal]], leader of the [[Chouannerie]] Breton royalist uprising, and the anarchist [[Ravachol]]. Later prisoners included the future [[Napoleon III]], who was tried there in 1840 after a failed attempt to seize power, and sentenced to prison for life in the prison of Ham, from which he escaped.{{Sfn|de Parseval|Mazeau|2019|p=44}} Beginning in 1812, the palace and portions of the Conciergerie were restored and rebuilt by architect A.M. Peyrle. His additions included the memorial chapel to Marie Antoinette.{{Sfn|de Parseval|Mazeau|2019|p=43}} In 1847, work began on an enlarged Palace of Justice, with a new Court of Summary Jurisdiction placed between the Silver Tower and the Tour Bombec. In 1862 the Conciergerie was granted the status of an historical monument, though it still continued to be used as a prison.{{sfn|de Parseval|Mazeau|2019|p=65}} Between 1847 and 1871 the architects [[Joseph-Louis Duc]] and Étienne Thédore Dommey built a new façade for the Ministry of Justice, facing the Boulevard du Palais; built a new building for the Correctional Police; reconstructed the historic Salle des Pas-Perdus and restored the clock tower, and built a new building next to the Conciergerie for the [[Cour de Cassation]]. At the same time they went to work restoring the medieval halls of the Conciergerie, and in 1870 raised the height of the clock tower.{{Sfn|Delon|2000|p=35-37}} Their work was interrupted by the uprising of the [[Paris Commune]] in 1871. In the final days of the Commune, the Communards set fire to the new Palais de Justice, badly damaging the interiors. Restoration and reconstruction lasted for another twenty years. The palace was finally completed with the finishing of the [[Tribunal correctionnel]] between 1904 and 1914. Some sections of the Conciergerie were opened to tourist visits in 1914. The prison continued to function until 1934, when it was definitively closed.{{Sfn|Delon|2000|p=35-37}} The prison was one of the backdrops for the [[2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony]], with a tableau that referenced the beheading of Marie Antoinette and the Reign of Terror, with performances by metal band [[Gojira (band)|Gojira]] and opera singer Marina Viotti.
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