The gallows outside the city
The macabre name derives from the executions that took place here from the Napoleonic era until 1852. At that time the square was still in the open countryside. The condemned man was accompanied from the prisons to the place of execution by a priest who comforted him.
In the illustrated work by Victor Hugo "The Last Day of a Condemned to Death" the comfort before execution.
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