The Hôtel de la Marine, also known (formerly) as the Hôtel du Garde-Meuble, is an historic building on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, just east of Rue Royale. It was designed by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel and built between 1757 and 1774 on the newly created square first called Place Louis XV. The identical building across the street, constructed at the same time, now houses the Hôtel de Crillon and the Automobile Club of France.
Façade on the Place de la Concorde
Ceremonial cannon taken from the Hôtel de la Marine fired the first shots in the taking of the Bastille, 14 July 1789
The execution of Louis XVI on the future Place de la Concorde on 21 January 1793, with the Hotel de la Marine at the right
Place Louis XV (now Place de la Concorde) in about 1791, with the Hôtel de la Marine on the right
The Place de la Concorde is one of the major public squares in Paris, France. Measuring 7.6 ha in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.
The Place de la Concorde
The project by Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Place Louis XV (1758)
Ceremony on the Place Louis XV in 1763
The execution of Louis XVI on the future Place de la Concorde on 21 January 1793
