Statue of Lavoisier, at Hôtel de Ville, Paris

Fearsomely British, until she decides to reinvent her house as " Hôtel McGurgle et de l ' Univers " to attract the tourists.

Grand Bayonne is the commercial and civic hub, with small pedestrianised streets packed with shops, plus the cathedral and Hôtel de Ville.

Prince Eugene was born in the Hôtel de Soissons in Paris on 18 October 1663.

Hôtel de Soissons, Eugene's birthplace.

Returning to the Hôtel de Ville ( city hall ), the mob accused the prévôt des marchands ( roughly, mayor ) Jacques de Flesselles of treachery and butchered him.

The women first marched to the Hôtel de Ville, demanding that city officials address their concerns.

The Parliament holds its meetings in the Town Hall ( Hôtel de Ville ), in the old city.

Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall

File: Hôtel de Blossac-Portail sur la rue du Chapitre-DSC 0811. JPG | Gate of the Hôtel de Blossac

After the various ordeals of unemployment and hunger the narrator obtains a job as a plongeur ( dishwasher ) in the " Hôtel X " near the Place de la Concorde, and begins to work long hours there.

Improvements to the neighbourhood included the Toulon Opera, the place de la Liberté, the Grand Hôtel, the Gardens of Alexander I, the Chalucet Hospital, the palais de Justice, the train station, and the building now occupied by Galeries Lafayette, among others.

At this time, Paris executions were carried out in the Place de la Revolution ( former Place Louis XV and current Place de la Concorde ); the guillotine stood in the corner near the Hôtel Crillon where the statue of Brest can be found today.

Seaside 5-star Hôtel Normandy and its gardens

Five-Star Hôtel Normandy, Deauville

Also holding five stars, the Hôtel Normandy is a charming hotel which truly encompasses Norman culture and tradition.

He also constructed the Hôtel Lesdiguières, built new fountains, and dug sewers.

The current Hôtel de Ville ( town hall ) of Caen is built onto the South Transept of the building.

The oldest and most prestigious families of the French nobility built outstanding residences in the area, such as the Hôtel Matignon, the Hôtel de Salm, or the Hôtel Biron.

Biarritz became more renowned in 1854 when Empress Eugenie ( the wife of Napoleon III ) built a palace on the beach ( now the Hôtel du Palais ).

In 1854 she built the villa Eugénie, today the Hôtel du Palais.

The Hôtel de ville, close to which stands the statue of Jeanne Hachette, was built in 1752.

This hôtel was later demolished to make room for Cardinal Richelieu's Palais Cardinal, and a new Hôtel de Rambouillet was built in 1618 on the rue Saint-Thomas du Louvre, between the Louvre and the Tuileries.

It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens: at a tournament at the Tournelles, a royal residence, Henri II was wounded and died.

The Congregation of Canons of the Great Saint Bernard ( the monks ) also owns the Hôtel de l ' Hospice du Grand-St-Bernard, a four-story building made of grey stone ( built in 1899 ) on the Italian side, which it leases to a private entrepreneur for the provision of hotel services.

In 1361 the King Charles V built a mansion known as the Hôtel Saint-Pol in which the Royal Court settled during his reign as well as his son's.

French nobles built their urban mansions there such as the Hôtel de Sens, the Hôtel de Sully, the Hôtel de Beauvais, the Hôtel Carnavalet, the Hôtel de Guénégaud, and the Hôtel de Soubise.

7, first as the Hôtel d ' Espeyran, was built by architect Henri Parent for Félicie Durand, the widow of Frédéric Sabatier d ' Espeyran.

Other major buildings include the 1820 Bâtiment des Loges, the modified cloister now called the Cour des Mûriers, the 1862 Bâtiment des Expositions which extended the campus to the Quai Malaquias, the Hôtel de Chimay built circa 1750 and acquired by the school in 1884, and a block of studios constructed circa 1945 in concrete by Auguste Perret.

Nearby are the Hôtel Matignon ( the official residence of the Prime Minister of France ) and the Maison de Verre ( a house built between 1928 and 1932 in an early modern style ).

In the following years, many hotels ( Hôtel des quatre saisons, Hôtel de France, Hôtel des Alpes ) were built, turning the town into a popular holiday resort.

* January 1903: the Moulin Rouge reopened after renovation and improvement work carried out by Niermans, the most “ Parisian ” architect of the Belle Époque ( amongst other works he designed the brasserie Mollard, the Paris Casino, the Folies Bergère in Paris, the Palace Hôtel in Ostend in Belgium, the rebuilding of the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz and the creation of the Hôtel Négresco on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice ).

A major undertaking was the Apotheosis of Napoleon I, painted in 1853 for the ceiling of a hall in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, and destroyed by fire in the Commune of 1871.

The Hôtel des arts was opened in 1998, presents five exhibits a year of works by well-known contemporary artists.

It was then used as a set for several films, such as Kafka's The Trial adapted by Orson Welles, and as a haven for the Renaud – Barrault Theatre Company and for auctioneers, while the Hôtel Drouot was being rebuilt.

Louis Petit de Bachaumont in a fauteuil, by Carmontelle, ca 1748 ; in the background the Hôtel de Rouillé is being demolished, to free Claude Perrault | Perrault's classic facade of the Louvre

The Bastille was demolished by order of the Committee of the Hôtel de Ville.

Station Charles de Gaulle – Étoile is at the street's west end, and there are three stations with entrances on the street itself ; from west to east these are: George V by the Hôtel George-V, Franklin D. Roosevelt at the rond-point des Champs-Élysées, and Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau at place Clemenceau.

* Le baiser de l ' hôtel de ville ( The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville or just The Kiss ), a photograph by Robert Doisneau

On 30 June 1559, at the Place Royale at the Hôtel des Tournelles, during a match to celebrate the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis with his longtime enemies, the Habsburgs of Austria, and to celebrate the marriage of his daughter Elisabeth of Valois to King Philip II of Spain, King Henry was mortally wounded by the lance of Gabriel Montgomery, captain of the King's Scottish Guard.

Like the Hôtel de Rambouillet in Paris, the château was owned by Charles d ' Angennes, the marquis de Rambouillet during the reign of Louis XIII.

The Burghers of Calais, by Rodin, with the Hôtel de Ville behind.

The town centre, which has seen significant regeneration over the past decade, is dominated by its distinctive town hall ( Hôtel de Ville ) at Place du Soldat Inconnu.

Hôtel Meurice de Calais is a hotel, established in 1771 as Le Chariot Royal by the French postmaster, Charles-Augustin Meurice, who would later establish the five-star Hôtel Meurice, one of Paris's most famous luxury hotels.

The salon is covered by a huge slate dome surmounted with an imposing lantern and is fronted with a two-storey portico that is almost identical to one at the Hôtel Tambonneau.

The Hôtel de Paris, established in 1864 by Charles III of Monaco, is located on the west side of the Place du Casino in the heart of Monte Carlo.

Hoping to turn over the town to Condé, the Huguenots of Toulouse seized the Hôtel de ville but were countered by angry Catholic mobs resulting in street battles and the killing of around 3, 000 ( mostly Huguenots ) during the 1562 Riots of Toulouse.

Many German nationals living in France had their possessions sequestered by the French state, and as a result, Kahnweiler's collection was confiscated in 1914 and sold by the government in a series of auctions at the Hôtel Drouot between 1921 and 1923.

Lamartine in front of the Hôtel de Ville de Paris, on the 25 February 1848, by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux | Félix Philippoteaux

The Hôtel Colbert, once the royal lodging, is now occupied by an archaeological museum.