History Challenge & Journal

[Siani]

I'd guess from the fairy tale style that it's somewhere in Germany?

Nope

[Siani]

At first view i would guess a European style design, maybe German?

European yes
German Nope Nope
I did not say that it is still standing

[STEVE G]

Medieval French?

[Siani]

Medieval French?

French Can you put a name to it?

[dtaai-maai]

Disneyland Paris?

[STEVE G]

I think it is in Paris but I haven't pinned down exactly where yet.

[Siani]

Disneyland Paris?

Nope Disleyland...oui...Paris

I think it is in Paris but I haven't pinned down exactly where yet.

Yes to Paris. It's not there now is a clue Here is a another reconstructed picture Think of French history

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[dtaai-maai]

Historical Parisian buildings...
Tuileries, Notredame, Montmartre, the Bastille, Versailles - je n'en sais rien, moi!

Was it destroyed during the French Revolution?

[STEVE G]

Is it the Tour de Temple, the old dungeon of the Knights Templar? I've a different picture that looks very similar.

[dtaai-maai]

Jolly well done, sir!!

[Siani]

Historical Parisian buildings...
Tuileries, Notredame, Montmartre, the Bastille, Versailles - je n'en sais rien, moi!

Was it destroyed during the French Revolution?

Mais oui

Is it the Tour de Temple, the old dungeon of the Knights Templar? I've a different picture that looks very similar.

Well done!

Ok the last part of the question...What was part of it used for later on?

[dtaai-maai]

Ok the last part of the question...What was part of it used for later on?[/color]

No credit for the answer to that part of the question, as all it needs is a very quick google search. It was used as a prison.

[Siani]

Ok the last part of the question...What was part of it used for later on?[/color]

No credit for the answer to that part of the question, as all it needs is a very quick google search. It was used as a prison.

Correct well done, the last bit might have been difficult...
It was built by the Knights Templar from the 12th century, as their European headquarters.
The Temple is notorious for having been the French royal family's jail at the time of the Revolution. The royals imprisoned at the Temple's tower were:
King Louis XVI, who on 21 January 1793 was taken from there to be guillotined at the Place de la Révolution;
Marie Antoinette, taken on 1 August 1793 from the Temple's tower to the Conciergerie, from where she eventually was also taken to the guillotine;
Madame Élisabeth, who stayed for 21 months at the tower before being taken on 9 May 1794 to the Conciergerie and guillotined the following day;
Louis XVII, who reportedly died at the tower on 8 June 1795, at the age of ten;
Princess Marie-Thérèse, who stayed at the tower for three years and four months before being sent into exile.

In 1808, the Temple having become a place of pilgrimage for royalists, Napoleon ordered its demolition, which took two years. There were remnants left that were demolished around 1860 under orders from Napoleon III. Today its location is a stop-over of the Paris Metro, the carreau du temple and the Palais de Justice (Courthouse) of the third arrondissement.

[sandman67]

was going to post another brain tickler but when I tried to post attachments I got this:

Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.

Mooooooooooooods!

[Siani]

was going to post another brain tickler but when I tried to post attachments I got this:

Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.

Mooooooooooooods!

SM..I don't think BB can post any pics either, problem I think He tried to put the caption competition picture on the next page and could not do it, he maybe trying to fix it