Hôtel de Ville, Créteil

The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, in the southeast suburbs of Paris, France, standing on Place Salvador-Allende.

It was designed by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1760.

[1] The building was acquired by a royal courtier, Jean d'Ariendolle, in the 1770s, and by a senior naval officer, Vice-Admiral Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville, in 1790.

[3] During the night of 21 August 1944, during the Second World War, the French Forces of the Interior captured the town hall, detained the representatives of the Vichy regime and installed a committee of liberation.

The site they selected was on the east bank of the Lac de Créteil, a former quarry which had been rejuvenated as a large water feature.

The first town hall