Temple (Paris)

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The Temple Tower and its enclosure constituted the Temple House, a former Parisian fortress located in the north of the Marais, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, which was destroyed in 1808. Built by the Templars from 1240, during the reign of Saint Louis, it later became a prison. She owes her fame to the fact that she served as a jail for Louis XVI and the royal family from 1792 to 1795 and that the 10-year-old dolphin Louis-Charles of France (Louis XVII for his supporters) died there. From the beginning of the 19th century, the temple tower had become a royalist pilgrimage site and was destroyed by Napoleon I in 1808.