The council relocated to the Bâtiment de la Boucherie (Butcher's Building) close to the L'école des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Art) in 1515.

Following the French Revolution, the council rented offices from Compte Pierre Joseph Rostan d'Ancezune and others, remaining there for nearly a century.

The site they selected was at the western end of the Allées de la Liberté, close to the sea front.

The central bay featured a round headed opening flanked by two pairs of Doric order columns supporting a cornice and a balcony.

[6] A monument, in the form of group of one airman, two soldiers and a sailor, cast in bronze, which was designed by the sculptor, Albert Cheuret, and intended to commemorate the lives of local service personnel who died in the First World War was unveiled in front of the town hall in November 1927.