Location: Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, Paris.
Main guillotine site 1792-1794, then called Place de la Révolution. Louis XVI was executed here January 21, 1793. Marie-Antoinette October 16, 1793. Then Danton, Robespierre, and 1,119 others met their end on this blood-soaked square during the Terror. The guillotine stood where the obelisk now rises.
Period recorded for this site: 18th century.
Theme: French Revolution.
Coordinates: 48.86560, 2.32130.
This plaque is a stop on the walk: French Revolution: Bastille & Revolutionary Paris.
On French Revolution: Bastille & Revolutionary Paris: Place de la Concorde (formerly Place de la Révolution), main guillotine site 1792-1794. Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, Robespierre executed here.
Other plaques within a few minutes' walk: Place de la Concorde (The Bourne Identity, 2002) (7 m); Départ du premier vol habité en ballon à hydrogène - 1783 (129 m); Raymond Mestracci (191 m); Philippe de Girard (192 m); 50e anniversaire du Plan Marshall (194 m).