Free visits of the prisons of the Provost

Name: Visitas libres a las cárceles de la Prebosta
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Maison du patrimoine - Prévôté

Come and visit the Prisons de la Prévôté, built by Philippe-Auguste in 1210, place where justice was rendered and where the prisoners stayed before their sentence....

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

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Mairie de Montlhéry

Come and visit the Prisons of the Provost, built by Philip Augustus in 1210, the place where justice was rendered and where prisoners stayed before their sentence.
The Historical Society will present the city in the Middle Ages through mapping, old writings, current publications and an exhibition on the castle of Montlhéry.

About the location

Maison du patrimoine - Prévôté

27 Grande-Rue 91310 Montlhéry

Essonne
Île-de-France

This communal building was inscribed, by decree of 5 February 1937, to the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments. During the reign of Philippe Auguste (1180-1223), during the administrative reorganization of the kingdom, Montlhéry became the seat of a provost court. Consequently, No. 27 of the Grande-Rue des Prisons and an audience for the conduct of court hearings are being built. They were built in the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1548, the chancellor of Leuville took possession of his county of Montlhéry and rebuilt the prison and the audience, which were repaired again in 1659 by François de Dinan, provost of the time. These places, witnesses of seigneurial justice, were subject to degradation because of their daily service. During the Revolution, prisons were still used. The demolition of part of the audience to allow the passage between the street and the cells made it possible to update graffiti dating from 1692 and 1693, of which a precise survey was carried out by the t