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Temple du Gout, Ile Feydeau, Nantes, France

Le Temple du Gout, a mansion built 1753-54 by Pierre Rousseau 1716-97, for the shipowner Guillaume Grou, on the Ile Feydeau in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The building's facade is at 16 Allee Duguay-Trouin, and is pyramidal in design, in a style known as Baroque Nantais, a local Rococo style. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The Ile Feydeau area, a former island in the Loire, was developed from the 1720s with large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Le Temple du Gout, a mansion built 1753-54 by Pierre Rousseau 1716-97, for the shipowner Guillaume Grou, on the Ile Feydeau in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The building's facade is at 16 Allee Duguay-Trouin, and is pyramidal in design, in a style known as Baroque Nantais, a local Rococo style. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The Ile Feydeau area, a former island in the Loire, was developed from the 1720s with large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. Picture by Manuel Cohen