After the French Army blocked his route, he retreated to Italy and his ally, Charles III, Duke of Savoy ordered the destruction of the town hall as well as the entire municipal archives.

[3] The new building was designed by Pierre Pavillon in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1668.

The central bay featured a round headed doorway flanked by two pairs of Doric order columns supporting an iron balcony; there was a French door on the first floor and a round arch containing a bust of Louis XIV on the second floor, all surmounted by a pediment.

[10] The two statues were torn down, and the bust was removed and replaced by a bust of Marianne, in August 1792 during the French Revolution,[11] and a fine library bequeathed to the town by Jean-Baptiste Marie de Piquet, Marquess of Méjanes on his death in 1786 was installed on the second floor of the building in November 1810.

[8] Following the liberation of the town by the American 3rd Infantry Division, supported by French Forces of the Interior, on 21 August 1944, during the Second World War, a plaque was placed on the clock tower to commemorate the event.