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Criminal police, prosecutors and courts of all instances - all focused in the Palace Pravosudiya.Segodnyashny architectural ensemble consists of buildings of different eras, spanning the period from XIII to XX vv.Dvorets survived several fires. Most of the devastation caused a fire in 1776, during which was destroyed portion extending between the Saint-Chapelle and the Conciergerie. In 1783-1786. This part of the palace was vosstanovlena.V years of the French Revolution from 1793 to 1795. the palace housed the Revolutionary Tribunal, which in a short period of its existence, sent to the gallows for more than two and a half thousand people, among them were not only aristocrats but also the creators of the Tribunal itself. In the era of the Restoration and the July Monarchy clearly raised the question of the need to expand the palace in view of increasing the number of cases. Architect ZH.-N. Guillot was commissioned to design the new building of the Palace of Justice.