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  • Pediment and dedicatory inscription AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE (For great men the grateful Nation), Neoclassical facade of the Pantheon, 1758 -1790, by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Paris, France. The mausoleum contains the remains of distinguished French citizens and the facade was modeled on that of the Pantheon in Rome. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Neoclassical facade of the Pantheon, 1758 -1790, by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Paris, France. The mausoleum contains the remains of distinguished French citizens and the facade was modeled on that of the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a dome that owes some of its character to Bramante's "Tempietto". Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Neoclassical facade of the Pantheon, 1758 -1790, by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Paris, France. The mausoleum contains the remains of distinguished French citizens and the facade was modeled on that of the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a dome that owes some of its character to Bramante's "Tempietto". Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pediment and dedicatory inscription AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE (For great men the grateful Nation), Neoclassical facade of the Pantheon, 1758 -1790, by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Paris, France. The mausoleum contains the remains of distinguished French citizens and the facade was modeled on that of the Pantheon in Rome. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Grand cabinet d'audience of Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville-d'Avray, in the Intendant's apartments, in the Hotel de la Marine, built 1757-74 by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1698-1782, architect to King Louis XV, on the Place de la Concorde, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. This room is decorated with neoclassical painted panels, a Restoration ceiling and a parquet floor in sycamore, oak, pear and mahogany. The building was made to house the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, the king's furniture collection. The Intendant of the Garde-Meuble was an important officer to the king, and was housed in this building in lavish apartments (Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu from 1765, and Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville d’Avray from 1786). From 1789, the building became the Ministere de la Marine, the navy ministry. It was restored 2017-20 and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Clock and statues above the doorway to the Cour des Referes, or Court of Referees, in the Palais de Justice or Paris Law Courts, on the Ile de la Cite, Paris, France. The former royal palace was originally a medieval building, reworked and rebuilt several times, with a major reconstruction 1857-68 by architects Joseph-Louis Duc and Honore Daumet under Haussmann. The complex includes the Palais de Justice, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Doric columns with alternating cubic and cylindrical forms on the portico of the Director's House or Maison du Directeur, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. It houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rear facade of the Director's House or Maison du Directeur, and (left) the East Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Est, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico on the front facade with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Storehouse and stables of the Director, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Marble sarcophagus of Queen Louise of Mecklenburg, wife of King Frederick Wilhelm III, in her mausoleum designed by Heinrich Gentz after her death in 1810 and later extended by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, in the grounds of the Schloss Charlottenburg or Charlottenburg Palace, built 1695-1713, Charlottenburg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany. The original palace was commissioned by Sophie Charlotte, wife of Friedrich III, and was occupied by Prussian rulers until the late 19th century. After being badly damaged in the war, the palace was restored and is now a major tourist attraction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Empress Josephine at Malmaison, nee Josephine de Beauharnais, 1763-1814, first wife of Emperor Napoleon I, on a Gobelins tapestry designed by Gerard Francois Antoine, 1760-1843, in the collection of the Chateaux de Malmaison et Bois-Preau, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, 1778-1846, as King of Holland, painted 1809 by Hodges, in the Imperial Portrait Gallery at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hortense Bonaparte, nee de Beauharnais, 1783-1837, daughter of Josephine de Beauharnais and stepdaughter of Emperor Napoleon I, in the Imperial Portrait Gallery at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Villa del Poggio Imperiale, a neoclassical Villa Medicea in Arcetri, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Originally built in the 15th century, the villa was bought by Cosimo I de Medici in the 16th century. It was enlarged in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It was the seat of the Educandato Statale della Santissima Annunziata 1865-2015. The villa forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Casino La Amistad in the evening, a white neoclassical building built in 1870, originally a charity centre, and now a cultural centre with bar and restaurant, on the beach in Cadaques, on the Cap de Creus peninsula, Catalonia, Spain. Cap de Creus is a rocky peninsula near the French border in the northern Costa Brava, with headlands, cliffs and coves, protected as a natural park since 1998. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Casino La Amistad, white neoclassical building built in 1870, originally a charity centre, and now a cultural centre with bar and restaurant, on the beach in Cadaques, on the Cap de Creus peninsula, Catalonia, Spain. Cap de Creus is a rocky peninsula near the French border in the northern Costa Brava, with headlands, cliffs and coves, protected as a natural park since 1998. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Zephyr, detail, on the facade of the Hotel Tronchon, also known as La Maison Trochon, Hotel Trochon or Hotel des Zephyrs, a mansion built 1742 in neoclassical style by Pierre Rousseau, for the shipowner Trochon, at 17 Quai de la Fosse, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The facade displays many masks and balcony supports of zephyrs, or young boys with butterfly wings. The building is listed as a historic monument. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. This quayside area houses the large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mask representing the African continent, on the facade of the Hotel des Freres Raimbaud, an 18th century mansion on the Quai Turenne on Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The building is listed as a historic monument. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century, although the Rimbaud brothers were wood merchants. 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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  • Mask representing India, or the Asian continent, on the facade of the Hotel des Freres Raimbaud, an 18th century mansion on the Quai Turenne on Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The building is listed as a historic monument. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century, although the Rimbaud brothers were wood merchants. 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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  • Mansion, 18th century, with balconies with iron consoles and 2 large cornucopias on the pediment, on the Place de la Bourse, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. The city houses large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Quai Turenne on the Ile Feydeau, with facades of 18th century neoclassical mansions built for shipowners and slave traders, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly 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, under the patronage of Paul Esprit Feydeau de Brou, minister of state. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Grotesque mask on the facade of the Hotel des Freres Raimbaud, an 18th century mansion on the Quai Turenne on Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The building is listed as a historic monument. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century, although the Rimbaud brothers were wood merchants. 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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  • Decorative stucco detail with classical symbols, in the Galerie Vivienne, a covered shopping arcade built in 1823 for Marchoux, President of the Chamber of Notaries, designed by Francois Jean Delannoy, between the Rue des Petits-Champs, Rue de la Banque and Rue Vivienne, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. The arcade is decorated in Neoclassical Pompeian style. It is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Book shop in the Galerie Vivienne, a covered shopping arcade with mosaic tile floor by Giandomenico Facchina and Mazzioli, built in 1823 for Marchoux, President of the Chamber of Notaries, designed by Francois Jean Delannoy, between the Rue des Petits-Champs, Rue de la Banque and Rue Vivienne, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. The arcade is decorated in Neoclassical Pompeian style. It is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Glass roof of the Galerie Vivienne, a covered shopping arcade built in 1823 for Marchoux, President of the Chamber of Notaries, designed by Francois Jean Delannoy, between the Rue des Petits-Champs, Rue de la Banque and Rue Vivienne, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. The arcade is decorated in Neoclassical Pompeian style. It is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Large scale street art graffiti mural on the hull of the barge Grande Fantaisie, by the street artist Marko 93, at the Quai de l'Oise on the Canal de l'Ourcq in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. The mural depicts the dancer Sarah Guem beckoning a panther. To the left is the Eglise Saint-Jacques-Saint-Christophe-de-la-Vilette, a catholic church built 1841-44 designed by Eugene Lequeux in Neoclassical style. The Canal de l'Ourcq is a 108.1km waterway begun in 1802 between Port-aux-Perches and the Canal Saint-Martin via the Bassin de la Villette or La Villette Basin. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scottish National Gallery (left), designed 1850-59 by William Playfair in Neoclassical style, and (right), New College, the School of Divinity of the University of Edinburgh, built 1843 in Neo Gothic style by William Playfair, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Redpath Museum, a natural history museum built in 1882 as a gift from the sugar baron Peter Redpath, part of McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Palacio Consistorial, originally built 1502-04 as the mayor's residence, and remodelled in the 19th century in Neoclassical style, with the clock tower added in 1913, in Columbus Park, Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. On the right is a bust of Pope John Paul II, commemorating his first visit to the Americas in 1979, on the Plaza de Colon outside the cathedral. Santo Domingo's Colonial Zone is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • British Museum, built in Greek Revival style by Robert Smirke, 1780-1867, on Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK. The central entrance portico with sculptures by Richard Westmacott, 1775-1856, was built in 1852 in Greek temple style, with columns with Ionic capitals and a pediment. The British Museum was established in 1753. It houses one of the largest public collections of art, history, culture and archaeology in the world and is the most visited museum in the world. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bas-relief of Malesherbes defending Louis XVI, designed by Francois Joseph Bosio, 1768-1845, and sculpted by Jean-Pierre Cortot, 1787-1843, on the plinth of the statue of Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, 1721-94, 1826, by Jacques Edmee Dumont, 1761-1844, in the Salle des Pas Perdus, or Hall of Lost Causes, an enormous vestibule leading to the courthouses, in the Palais de Justice or Paris Law Courts, on the Ile de la Cite, Paris, France. The former royal palace was originally a medieval building, reworked and rebuilt several times, with a major reconstruction 1857-68 by architects Joseph-Louis Duc and Honore Daumet under Haussmann. The complex includes the Palais de Justice, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Artificial grotto on the rear facade of the Batiment des Gardes, within a monumental portico with Doric columns, forming the entrance to the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. This building is now used as a ticket office and a hotel. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Storehouse and stables of the Director (left), and corner of the Director's House or Maison du Directeur (right), part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Farriery or Marechalerie (right), containing 3 forges for making tools, barrel hoops and brine pans, and workers' accommodation and storage rooms, Berniers Est (centre), saltworkers' accommodations, and the Pavillon de la Gabelle (left), housing offices and accommodation for the gabelous or salt tax collectors, employed by the Ferme Generale, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Colliers workshop, perspective view engraving, c. 1785, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, French architect, in the Musee Ledoux, in the Cooperage or Tonnellerie, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. These plans were never realized, but formed part of Ledoux's Ideal City of Chaux, a huge saltworks on a circular plan. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, and (left) West Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Ouest and (right) East Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Est, where the water was evaporated from the brine in huge iron basins, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of the Comtesse de Gobineau,<br />
1850, by Ary Scheffer, 1795-1858, Dutch-French painter, in Le MUDO, or the Musee de l'Oise, Beauvais, Picardy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mausoleum of Queen Louise of Mecklenburg, wife of King Frederick Wilhelm III, designed by Heinrich Gentz after her death in 1810 and later extended by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, in the grounds of the Schloss Charlottenburg or Charlottenburg Palace, built 1695-1713, Charlottenburg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany. The original palace was commissioned by Sophie Charlotte, wife of Friedrich III, and was occupied by Prussian rulers until the late 19th century. After being badly damaged in the war, the palace was restored and is now a major tourist attraction. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Hamburger Bahnhof, or Hamburg station, built 1846-47 in neoclassical style by Friedrich Neuhaus, Invalidenstrasse, Berlin, Germany. The station building is today home to the Museum fur Gegenwart, or the Museum for the Present, a contemporary art gallery. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Horse's head from, "Kämpfende Amazone" (Fighting Amazonian Woman) by August Kiss, 19th century, outside the Altes Museum or Old Museum, housing the Antique collection of the Berlin State Museums, Museum Island, Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The museum was built 1823-30 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in neoclassical style to house the Prussian royal family's art collection. The buildings on Museum Island were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Steps and colonnade of the Altes Museum or Old Museum, housing the Antique collection of the Berlin State Museums, Museum Island, Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The museum was built 1823-30 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in neoclassical style to house the Prussian royal family's art collection. The buildings on Museum Island were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of Napoleon-Louis, later Louis II of Holland, from portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais, 1787-1837, Queen of Holland, and her second son Napoleon-Louis, 1804-31, Prince of Holland, painted 1806-8 by Francois Gerard, 1770-1837, in the Musee National du Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Francois Pascal Simon Gerard, 1770-1837, French painter, painted 1824 by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830, from the collection of the Chateau de Versailles et de Trianon, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Cardinal Joseph Fesch, 1802-39, uncle of Napoleon Bonaparte, painted 1807 by Pierre-Paul Prudhon, 1758-1823, in the Imperial Portrait Gallery at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Madame Mere (Maria Letizia Bonaparte, nee Ramolino 1750-1836), mother of Emperor Napoleon I, by Francois Pascal Simon Gerard, 1770-1837, in the Imperial Portrait Gallery at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Neoclassical hall displaying Picasso ceramics in the Palau del Baro de Castellet, part of the Museu Picasso, an art gallery featuring over 4000 works by Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, in La Ribera, in the Old City of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum opened in 1963 and is housed in 5 adjoining medieval palaces on the Carrer de Montcada. The Palau del Baro de Castellet is a medieval palace renovated in the 18th century, arranged around a central courtyard. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Neoclassical decoration with putti, urn, fluted pilasters and gilt corinthian capitals, in a hall displaying Picasso ceramics in the Palau del Baro de Castellet, part of the Museu Picasso, an art gallery featuring over 4000 works by Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, in La Ribera, in the Old City of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum opened in 1963 and is housed in 5 adjoining medieval palaces on the Carrer de Montcada. The Palau del Baro de Castellet is a medieval palace renovated in the 18th century, arranged around a central courtyard. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Casino La Amistad, white neoclassical building built in 1870, originally a charity centre, and now a cultural centre with bar and restaurant, on the beach in Cadaques, on the Cap de Creus peninsula, Catalonia, Spain. Cap de Creus is a rocky peninsula near the French border in the northern Costa Brava, with headlands, cliffs and coves, protected as a natural park since 1998. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Grotesque mask on the facade of the Hotel des Freres Raimbaud, an 18th century mansion on the Quai Turenne on Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The building is listed as a historic monument. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century, although the Rimbaud brothers were wood merchants. 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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  • Quai Turenne on the Ile Feydeau, with facades of 18th century neoclassical mansions built for shipowners and slave traders, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly 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, under the patronage of Paul Esprit Feydeau de Brou, minister of state. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Shipowner's mansion, built 18th century in neoclassical style, at 41 and 42 Quai de la Fosse, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. This quayside area houses the large mansions built by wealthy shipowners and slave traders, but also previously housed many bars and a red light district frequented by sailors. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Liberty, or Liberty Enlightening the World, copper neoclassical statue by Auguste Bartholdi with internal metal framework by Gustave Eiffel, inaugurated 28th October 1886, on Liberty Island, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. The statue was a gift of friendship from France to the USA and symbolises freedom and democracy. The statue and island are listed as a National Monument and managed by the National Parks Service. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the distance is downtown Manhattan. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Front cover of issue no. 75 of Lisez-Moi Historia, a monthly history magazine, published February 1953, featuring an article on the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944 during the Second World War, with the portrait of Madame Recamier by Antoine Gros on the cover. Historia was created by Jules Tallandier and published 1909-37 and again from 1945. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Pierre-Antoine Berryer, 1790-1868, French lawyer, flanked by figures of Justice and Eloquence, 1879, by Henri Chapu, 1833-91, in the Salle des Pas Perdus, or Hall of Lost Causes, an enormous vestibule leading to the courthouses, in the Palais de Justice or Paris Law Courts, on the Ile de la Cite, Paris, France. Berryer was a royalist but nevertheless defended the 1848 revolutionaries. The former royal palace was originally a medieval building, reworked and rebuilt several times, with a major reconstruction 1857-68 by architects Joseph-Louis Duc and Honore Daumet under Haussmann. The complex includes the Palais de Justice, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, 1721-94, defender of Louis XVI, 1826, by Jacques Edmee Dumont, 1761-1844, flanked by figures of France and Fidelity, by Francois Joseph Bosio, 1768-1845, in the Salle des Pas Perdus, or Hall of Lost Causes, an enormous vestibule leading to the courthouses, in the Palais de Justice or Paris Law Courts, on the Ile de la Cite, Paris, France. The former royal palace was originally a medieval building, reworked and rebuilt several times, with a major reconstruction 1857-68 by architects Joseph-Louis Duc and Honore Daumet under Haussmann. The complex includes the Palais de Justice, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mystery of the Immaculate Conception, detail of a fresco by Charles Soulacroix, 1825-99, in the first apse chapel, in the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculee-Conception or Basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne, a Roman Catholic cathedral built 1827-63 in Neoclassical style by Benoit-Agathon Haffreingue, in Boulogne, Pas de Calais, France. The fresco depicts the Virgin in Glory, surrounded by clouds, angels and rays of light, crushing a snake with her foot. Below are 2 angels with weapons and to the right is St Michael the archangel. Charles Soulacroix, a sculptor, was commissioned in 1863-65 by Haffreingue to decorate the 6 apse chapels, these being his first frescoes. The cathedral is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rear facade of the Director's House or Maison du Directeur, and (left) East Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Est and (right) West Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Ouest, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico on the front facade with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Farriery or Marechalerie (right), containing 3 forges for making tools, barrel hoops and brine pans, and workers' accommodation and storage rooms, Berniers Est (centre), saltworkers' accommodations, and the Pavillon de la Gabelle (left), housing offices and accommodation for the gabelous or salt tax collectors, employed by the Ferme Generale, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • House of the Agricultural Guards of Maupertuis, perspective view engraving, c. 1785, by Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, French architect, in the Musee Ledoux, in the Cooperage or Tonnellerie, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. These plans were never realized, but formed part of Ledoux's Ideal City of Chaux, a huge saltworks on a circular plan. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tomb of Ludwig Devrient, 1784-1832, German playwright, in the Franzosischer Friedhof or French Cemetery, opened 1780 for the descendants of Huguenots and Protestants living in Berlin, Oranienburg, Berlin, Germany. Many of the tombs are neoclassical in style. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais, 1787-1837, Queen of Holland, and her second son Napoleon-Louis, 1804-31, Prince of Holland, painted 1806-8 by Francois Gerard, 1770-1837, in the Musee National du Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, 1778-1846, as King of Holland, painted 1809 by Hodges, in the Imperial Portrait Gallery at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I in imperial costume, Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, with laurel wreath crown and Legion of Honour chain and holding sceptre by goldsmith Biennais, painted by Anne-Louis Girodet, 1767-1824, in the Imperial Portrait Gallery at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Escalier d'Honneur, or staircase of honour, in the centre of the Hotel de la Marine, built 1757-74 by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1698-1782, architect to King Louis XV, on the Place de la Concorde, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. The banister features the symbol of the Navy, with an anchor and dolphins. The building was made to house the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, the king's furniture collection, and the apartments of the Intendant of the Garde-Meuble (Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu from 1765, and Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville d’Avray from 1786). From 1789, the building became the Ministere de la Marine, the navy ministry. It was restored 2017-20 and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Liberty, or Liberty Enlightening the World, copper neoclassical statue by Auguste Bartholdi with internal metal framework by Gustave Eiffel, inaugurated 28th October 1886, on Liberty Island, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA. The statue was a gift of friendship from France to the USA and symbolises freedom and democracy. The statue and island are listed as a National Monument and managed by the National Parks Service. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Monument to Monseigneur Lobbedey, 1856-1916, depicting the bishop kneeling in prayer, marble funerary cenotaph by Louis Noel, 1839-1925, inaugurated 8th March 1921, in the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculee-Conception or Basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne, a Roman Catholic cathedral built 1827-63 in Neoclassical style by Benoit-Agathon Haffreingue, in Boulogne, Pas de Calais, France. The cathedral is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mystery of the Immaculate Conception, detail of a fresco by Charles Soulacroix, 1825-99, in the first apse chapel, in the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculee-Conception or Basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne, a Roman Catholic cathedral built 1827-63 in Neoclassical style by Benoit-Agathon Haffreingue, in Boulogne, Pas de Calais, France. The fresco depicts the Virgin in Glory, surrounded by clouds, angels and rays of light, crushing a snake with her foot. Below are 2 angels with weapons and to the right is St Michael the archangel. Charles Soulacroix, a sculptor, was commissioned in 1863-65 by Haffreingue to decorate the 6 apse chapels, these being his first frescoes. The cathedral is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Doric columns with alternating cubic and cylindrical forms on the portico of the Director's House or Maison du Directeur, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. It houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bride and groom in the Galerie Vero-Dodat, covered shopping arcade built 1826 between the Rue de Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Rue de Croix-des-Petits-Champs, 1st arrondissement, Paris, France. The arcade is Neoclassical in style, with a tiled floor and wooden shop fronts. It was restored in 1997 and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bust of the Virgin, c. 1850, oil on paper on canvas, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867, in Le MUDO, or the Musee de l'Oise, Beauvais, Picardy, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Madame Mere (Maria Letizia Bonaparte, nee Ramolino 1750-1836), mother of Emperor Napoleon I, by Francois Pascal Simon Gerard, 1770-1837, in the Imperial Portrait Gallery at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I in imperial costume, Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, with laurel wreath crown and Legion of Honour chain and holding sceptre by goldsmith Biennais, painted by Anne-Louis Girodet, 1767-1824, in the Imperial Portrait Gallery at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fourth Grotto, with theme of shells, bees and dolphins, Neoclassical marble statue of Flora by Giovan Battista Monti, and 19th century model ship, in the Apartment of Grottoes, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The grottoes form a summer apartment for Vitaliano VI Borromeo, built 1689-1769 by Filippo Cagnola and Giulio Galliori. The walls and vaults of the 6 rooms are encrusted with stones, tufa, lava, coal, mica and marble, encased in stucco decorations of shells, nymphs, sirens, dolphins, fish and turtles. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bathoom, designed for Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, sister of Napoleon and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, designed by Giuseppe Cacialli, with Biedermeier style furniture, grey marble bath and frescoes by Luigi Catani, 1762-1840, in the Villa di Poggio a Caiano, a Medici Villa built from 1480 in Renaissance style by Giuliano da Sangallo, 1443-1516, for Lorenzo de Medici, in Poggio a Caiano, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. The villa was begun 1480-95 and completed 1513-20 under Giovanni de Medici by Andrea di Cosimo Feltrini and Franciabigio. The museum now houses 2 museums, the Museo della Natura Morta or Still Life Museum, and the Historic Apartments. It forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mural, detail of winged woman with flowers, in the grand cabinet d'audience of Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville-d'Avray, in the Intendant's apartments, in the Hotel de la Marine, built 1757-74 by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1698-1782, architect to King Louis XV, on the Place de la Concorde, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. This room is decorated with neoclassical painted panels, a Restoration ceiling and a parquet floor in sycamore, oak, pear and mahogany. The building was made to house the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, the king's furniture collection. The Intendant of the Garde-Meuble was an important officer to the king, and was housed in this building in lavish apartments (Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu from 1765, and Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville d’Avray from 1786). From 1789, the building became the Ministere de la Marine, the navy ministry. It was restored 2017-20 and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Hotel Grou, a neoclassical mansion built 1747-52 for Guillaume Grou, a shipowner and slave trader, on the corner of Rue Kervegan and the Place de la Petite-Hollande, on the Ile Feydeau, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The building was extended in the 19th century, and is listed as a historic monument. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Quai Turenne on the Ile Feydeau, with facades of 18th century neoclassical mansions built for shipowners and slave traders, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting greatly 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, under the patronage of Paul Esprit Feydeau de Brou, minister of state. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Glass roof of the Galerie Vivienne, a covered shopping arcade built in 1823 for Marchoux, President of the Chamber of Notaries, designed by Francois Jean Delannoy, between the Rue des Petits-Champs, Rue de la Banque and Rue Vivienne, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. The arcade is decorated in Neoclassical Pompeian style. It is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Lucien Legrand wine cellar in the Galerie Vivienne, a covered shopping arcade with mosaic tile floor by Giandomenico Facchina and Mazzioli, built in 1823 for Marchoux, President of the Chamber of Notaries, designed by Francois Jean Delannoy, between the Rue des Petits-Champs, Rue de la Banque and Rue Vivienne, in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. The arcade is decorated in Neoclassical Pompeian style. It is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, 1721-94, defender of Louis XVI, 1826, by Jacques Edmee Dumont, 1761-1844, in the Salle des Pas Perdus, or Hall of Lost Causes, an enormous vestibule leading to the courthouses, in the Palais de Justice or Paris Law Courts, on the Ile de la Cite, Paris, France. The former royal palace was originally a medieval building, reworked and rebuilt several times, with a major reconstruction 1857-68 by architects Joseph-Louis Duc and Honore Daumet under Haussmann. The complex includes the Palais de Justice, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Pierre-Antoine Berryer, 1790-1868, French lawyer, 1879, by Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu, 1833-91, in the Salle des Pas Perdus, or Hall of Lost Causes, an enormous vestibule leading to the courthouses, in the Palais de Justice or Paris Law Courts, on the Ile de la Cite, Paris, France. Berryer was a royalist but nevertheless defended the 1848 revolutionaries. The former royal palace was originally a medieval building, reworked and rebuilt several times, with a major reconstruction 1857-68 by architects Joseph-Louis Duc and Honore Daumet under Haussmann. The complex includes the Palais de Justice, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of a figure holding a model of a church, in the second apse chapel of the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculee-Conception or Basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne, a Roman Catholic cathedral built 1827-63 in Neoclassical style by Benoit-Agathon Haffreingue, in Boulogne, Pas de Calais, France. The cathedral is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Funerary Monument of Monseigneur Haffreingue, 1785-1871, designed by Monsieur Dutoit and sculpted by Monsieur Cela and Eugene Delaplanche, 1836-91, in the third apse chapel of the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculee-Conception or Basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne, a Roman Catholic cathedral built 1827-63 in Neoclassical style by Benoit-Agathon Haffreingue, in Boulogne, Pas de Calais, France. The sculpture depicts Haffreingue kneeling and presenting a model of the church to the Virgin. The cathedral is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Doric columns with alternating cubic and cylindrical forms on the portico of the Director's House or Maison du Directeur, in the evening, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. On the left is the Berniers Ouest, saltworkers' accommodation. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. It houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, flanked by the (left) West Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Ouest and (right) East Saltworks or Batiment des Sels Est, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. On the right is the Berniers Est, housing saltworkers' accommodation. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pavillon de la Gabelle, housing offices and accommodation for the gabelous or salt tax collectors, employed by the Ferme Generale, with a Palladian facade, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Batiment des Gardes (right), the entrance building to the site and now a ticket office and hotel, the Cooperage or Tonnelerie (centre), used for barrel making, communal kitchens, wood storage and barrel makers' accommodation, now the Ledoux Museum or Musee Ledoux, and the Berniers Ouest (left), saltworkers' accommodation, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Director's House or Maison du Directeur, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House has an imposing portico with 6 Doric columns, a triangular pediment with oculus and a belvedere. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portico with Doric columns with alternating cubic and cylindrical forms, triangular pediment and oculus, on the Director's House or Maison du Directeur, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The building houses an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rear facade of the Batiment des Gardes with monumental portico with Doric columns and an artificial grotto, forming the entrance to the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. This building is now used as a ticket office and a hotel. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers' accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Madonna with the candelabra, Neoclassical oil painting on canvas, 1817, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867, in the Chateau Royal de Blois, built 13th - 17th century in Blois in the Loire Valley, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France. The chateau has 564 rooms and 75 staircases and is listed as a historic monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Signol, Emile, 1804-1892, La mort du Christ (The death of Jesus), oil on canvas mounted, in Eglise Saint-Sulpice (St Sulpitius' Church), c.1646-1745, late Baroque church on the Left Bank, Paris, France. This painting was ordered by the City Council of Paris in 1868 and was subject to a first exhibition in Ecole des Beaux Arts (School of Fine Arts) in 1876. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Hamburger Bahnhof, or Hamburg station, built 1846-47 in neoclassical style by Friedrich Neuhaus, Invalidenstrasse, Berlin, Germany. The station building is today home to the Museum fur Gegenwart, or the Museum for the Present, a contemporary art gallery. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Simon Chenard, 1758-1832, French actor and singer, painted by Francois Pascal Simon Gerard, 1770-1837, from the collection of the Musee Leblanc-Duvernoy, Auxerre, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I in imperial costume, Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, with laurel wreath crown and Legion of Honour chain and holding sceptre by goldsmith Biennais, painted by Anne-Louis Girodet, 1767-1824, in the Imperial Portrait Gallery at the Chateau de Fontainebleau, France. The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal palaces and was begun in the early 16th century for Francois I. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Small theatre in Neoclassical style, built early 19th century by Alessandro Sanquirico, who decorated the Scala in Milan, used for puppet shows and opened for the visit of Charles Albert of Savoy, in the Palazzo Borromeo, on Isola Madre, the largest of the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The palace was built in the 16th century for the Borromeo family, designed by Pellegrino Pellegrini or Il Tibaldi. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Third Grotto, with Venere Addormentata or Sleeping Venus marble Neoclassical sculpture by Giovan Battista Monti, Greek-style floor mosaic and displays of porcelain and Viennese and Lombard majolica, in the Apartment of Grottoes, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The grottoes form a summer apartment for Vitaliano VI Borromeo, built 1689-1769 by Filippo Cagnola and Giulio Galliori. The walls and vaults of the 6 rooms are encrusted with stones, tufa, lava, coal, mica and marble, encased in stucco decorations of shells, nymphs, sirens, dolphins, fish and turtles. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Neoclassical marble bust of Achilles or Alexander the Great by Giovan Battista Monti, in the Second Grotto in the Apartment of Grottoes, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The grottoes form a summer apartment for Vitaliano VI Borromeo, built 1689-1769 by Filippo Cagnola and Giulio Galliori. The walls and vaults of the 6 rooms are encrusted with stones, tufa, lava, coal, mica and marble, encased in stucco decorations of shells, nymphs, sirens, dolphins, fish and turtles. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Red Dining Room or Tapestry Room, used for formal banquets for the Savoy Monarchy, with neoclassical furniture, crystal chandeliers and 17th century Flemish tapestries, at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The villa was bought by Cosimo I de Medici in the 16th century and his son Ferdinand carried out remodelling on the building with architect Bernardo Buontalenti, 1531-1608. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reception Room in the Apartment of King Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy, designed after 1865, in the Villa di Poggio a Caiano, a Medici Villa built from 1480 in Renaissance style by Giuliano da Sangallo, 1443-1516, for Lorenzo de Medici, in Poggio a Caiano, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. The room has fabric wall coverings, neoclassical ceiling frescoes, Neo Rococco Piemontese furniture and Savoy family portraits. The apartment consists of 4 rooms used as the country seat of the King and his wife, the Countess of Mirafiori, Rosa Vercellana, known as the Bella Rosina. The villa was begun 1480-95 and completed 1513-20 under Giovanni de Medici by Andrea di Cosimo Feltrini and Franciabigio. The museum now houses 2 museums, the Museo della Natura Morta or Still Life Museum, and the Historic Apartments. It forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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