The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, in the western suburbs of Paris, France, standing on Rue du 8 Mai 1945.

The new building was designed by Paul-Eugène Lequeux in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was officially opened by the mayor, Charles-Maurice Delahaye, on 27 October 1842.

[4] Following the Paris insurrection on 19 August 1944, during the Second World War, the former mayor, Raymond Barbet, stood on the balcony and claimed possession of the town hall.

[6] The site the town council selected was on the northwest side of Avenue Frederic et Irene Joliot Curie.

[3] On 27 March 2002, a member of the public, Richard Durn, caused a massacre when he shot eight councillors dead and injured nineteen others in the town hall.