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Place De GrveThe Place de Grve was, before 1803, the name of the plaza now the City Hall Plaza (place de l'Htel de Ville) in Paris, France. It used to be a meeting place, and also the location where unemployed people sought prospective employers; this probably resulted in the current French idioms of tre en grve (to be on strike). Nevertheless, the reason why the place de Grve is mostly remembered is that it was the site of most executions in Paris. The gallows and the pillory stood there. The highest-profile executions took place in the Grve, including the gruesome deaths of the regicides Jacques Clment, Franois Ravaillac, RobertFranois Damiens. In the words of Victor Hugo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame), the grve was the symbol of medieval and ancien rgime justice: brutal, corrupt and inadequate. Grve
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