Clock, 1535
The France's first public clock's was installed on this tower of the Conciergerie about 1370. This current clock dates from 1535. A Latin inscription below says: “This mechanism which divides time into perfectly equal twelve hours helps you to protect justice and defend the Law". The two statuettes on the sides of the dial are the Force and the Law; the first holds the Hand of Justice and the Tablet of the Law, on which is inscribed this precept: Sacra Dei celerare pins regale time jus (Justice bears the balance and the sword.)
The tower's design belongs to the military architecture of the fourteenth century.
Paris, 2016
Clock, 1535
The France's first public clock's was installed on this tower of the Conciergerie about 1370. This current clock dates from 1535. A Latin inscription below says: “This mechanism which divides time into perfectly equal twelve hours helps you to protect justice and defend the Law". The two statuettes on the sides of the dial are the Force and the Law; the first holds the Hand of Justice and the Tablet of the Law, on which is inscribed this precept: Sacra Dei celerare pins regale time jus (Justice bears the balance and the sword.)
The tower's design belongs to the military architecture of the fourteenth century.
Paris, 2016