Reporters Memorial, Bayeux
The Reporters Memorial in Bayeux is an avenue of white rememberance slabs of stone, each seven feet high, and each recording the names of reporters who were killed reporting conflict.
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The Conciergerie - a palace prison
Once part of a royal palace, the Conciergerie was used as a prison during the French Revolution, housing over 4000 prisoners. Notable among them were Marie-Antoinette who occupied a small cell before she went to the guilotine.
It is quite interesting history especially the stories of how the building was used during the French Revolution. One of the cells is set up depicting how Marie-Antoinette was imprisoned. There are lists of those who were held here and subsequently sent to the guilotine.
The Conciergerie is just around the corner from Sainte-Chapelle and Brasserie les Deux Palais. At the latter you can enjoy a goat salad, a glass of Gringnan Adhemar 2018, followed by Camembert or Dung Goat cheese with your coffee.
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