Revolutionary Paris Highlights

The essential French Revolution sites in under 2 hours: Bastille, Conciergerie, and Place de la Concorde where the guillotine stood.

This route has 4 stops.

Start at Place de la Bastille where it all began on July 14, 1789. The fortress was stormed by revolutionaries seeking weapons.

Hôtel de Ville, the political epicenter where revolutionaries seized power and debated the nation's fate.

The Conciergerie, the Revolutionary Tribunal prison where Marie-Antoinette and thousands awaited the guillotine.

End at Place de la Concorde, where the guillotine executed Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and over 1,300 victims during the Terror.