Vue de la Sainte Chapelle et de la Conciergerie

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The history of the Conciergerie castle begins simultaneously with the history of the rise of Paris. Paris became the capital of the Frankish state in 508, when King Clovis I of the Merovingian dynasty, decided to found on the western tip of the island Cite impregnable castle, his personal residence. This initial Palace and was the precursor of modern Konserzheri.Smena dynasties has led to a change in geographic priorities, and the Carolingians the state has shifted from Paris to the east, in the town of Laon, in consequence of which the royal castle on the island of Cité gradually began to fall into disrepair and decay, as well as the whole of Paris. Re-enter the phase of blossoming city it was destined in the X century, when Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian dynasty, again suffered a royal residence in Paris, and the castle was returned to the status of royal kreposti.Sleduyuschie 4 centuries were a time of great architectural transformations.