Montreal City Hall
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The 5 storey Montreal City Hall (Hôtel de Ville) is the work of architects Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, built between 1872 and 1878. Its architecture is in the Second Empire style, also known as Napoléon III-style.
It is located in the center of Old Montreal, facing place Jacques-Cartier, at 275 Notre-Dame Street East. The closest metro station is Champ-de-Mars.
[edit] History
It was built between 1872 and 1878 but caught fire in 1922. It was restored by taking as a model the city hall of the French city of Tours.
In 1967, it is from its balcony that Charles de Gaulle, then president of France, gave his speech which ended by the (often famous or infamous) "Vive le Québec libre".
