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Château de Pierrefonds: View of original ruins in front of rebuilt castle

Date

Circa 1910

Creator

G. Massiot & cie
Part of: Architectural Lantern Slides of France
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries

With the exterior Viollet-le-Duc showed an excellent knowledge of the military architecture of the 14th century.

From 1393 to his death in 1407, Louis, Duke of Orléans had the castle rebuilt by the court architect, Jean le Noir. In March 1617 the castle was besieged and largely destroyed. In the nineteenth century it became a popular "romantic ruin". Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (later Napoleon III of France) visited the castle in 1850. As emperor, he asked Viollet-le-Duc in 1857 to undertake its restoration (which is more of a re-imagining of the site in the interiors).

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Creator
G. Massiot & cie
Date
Circa 1910
Publisher
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
Material Type
photographs
Conditions Governing Access
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Related Location
Pierrefonds, Picardy, France: southeast edge of the Forest of Compiègne, north of Paris, Oise département

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