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Gibbet of Montfaucon

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Gibbet of Montfaucon

The Gibbet of Montfaucon (French: Gibet de Montfaucon) was the main gibbet of the Kings of France until the time of Louis XIII of France. It was a large structure located at the top of a small hill near the modern Place du Colonel Fabien in Paris, though during the Middle Ages it was outside the city walls and the surrounding area was mostly not built up, being occupied by institutions like the Hôpital Saint-Louis from 1607, and earlier the Convent of the Filles-Dieu ("Daughters of God"), a home for 200 reformed prostitutes, and the leper colony of St Lazare.[2]

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