Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hôtel de Ville

Hôtel de Ville, Paris

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Original – Hôtel de Ville, the Paris city administration building, half destroyed shortly after the Paris Commune of 1871 during which the communards "burned memorials of the empire"

Edit – by User:Paris 16 (a valued image on Commons)

Reason

Historically significant and not bad quality for a photo taken some 140 years ago.

Articles in which this image appears

Hôtel de Ville, Paris, Paris Commune

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture (or maybe Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others?)

Creator

Hippolyte-Auguste Collard (1811–1887), edited version by User:Paris 16

• Support as nominator --Երևանցի ^talk 23:51, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
• Comment I think the contrast is a bit low on the ALT, though I prefer it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:59, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support both Tomer T (talk) 10:58, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:03, 25 January 2014 (UTC)