[2] After that building had been demolished in the 13th century, they relocated to Maison Saint-Antoine on Rue Saint-Félix, and, then from 1793, they used part of the old Saint-Ruf Abbey, which had been confiscated by the state during the French Revolution.

[4] In the late 1880s, after the convent became very dilapidated, the local council led by the mayor, Maurice Clerc, decided to commission a dedicated town hall.

It was designed by Henri Édouard Bertsch-Proust and Paul Bischoff in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was officially opened by the mayor, Jean-François Malizard, on 16 December 1894.

[6] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of 11 bays facing onto Place de la Liberté with the end pays slightly projected forward.

The Salle des Mariages featured fine paintings by Louis Ollier depicting Le Printemps de la vie (the Springtime of Life), and Cortège Nuptial (Wedding Procession).