Hôtel de Ville, Montrouge
building in Montrouge, France
The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, in the southern suburbs of Paris, standing on Avenue de la République. It has been included on the Inventaire général des monuments by the French Ministry of Culture since 1991.
History
After the French Revolution, the newly elected town council initially held their meetings in the home of the mayor at the time. At that time Montrouge was divided into two distinct areas, Petit-Montrouge and Grand-Montrouge. In the mid-19th century, the council led by the mayor, Alexandre Dareau, decided to commission a dedicated town hall. The site they selected for the first town hall was in what is now Place Ferdinand Brunot in Petit-Montrouge. Construction of the new building started in 1851. It was designed by Claude Naissant in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was officially opened by the Prefect of the Department of the Seine, Jean-Jacques Berger, in 1855.
However, just five years later, in 1860, by order of Napoleon III, the district of Petit-Montrouge was annexed by the City of Paris to form part of the 14th arrondissement. As the first town hall was within Petit-Montrouge, it was taken by the City of Paris to serve as the town hall of the 14th arrondissement, leaving Grand-Montrouge, which corresponds to the current commune of Montrouge, without municipal offices.
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