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Rue St. Honoré facade of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1770) Second Salle du Palais-Royal, first purpose-built opera house in Paris; Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799) Hôtel Alexandre; Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797) Various chateaux in the Limoges and the Limousin region; Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806) – famous for his mathematical ...
Sanisette (French pronunciation:) is a registered trademark for a self-contained, self-cleaning, unisex, public toilet pioneered by the French company JCDecaux. These toilets (and other similar toilets) are a common sight in several major cities of the world, but they are perhaps most closely associated with the city of Paris , where they are ...
François-Joseph Belanger, architecte des Menus Plaisirs, premier architecte du comte d'Artois. (Paris: Plon) 1930; Gabrielle Joudiou, La folie de M. de Sainte-James : une demeure, un jardin pittoresque (Neuilly-sur-Seine : Editions Spiralinthe) 2001; Martine Constans and Béatrice de Andia, Bagatelle dans ses jardins (Paris) 1997 ISBN 2-905118 ...
The king's plan to divert the Loire to surround the château came about only in a novel; Amadís de Gaula, which Francis had translated. In the novel the château is referred to as the Palace of Firm Isle. Chambord's towers are atypical of French contemporary design in that they lack turrets and spires.
French Creole buildings borrow traditions from France, the Caribbean, and many other parts of the world such as Spanish, African, Native American, and other heritages. French Creole homes from the Colonial period were especially designed for the hot, wet climate of that region. Traditional French Creole homes had some or all of these features:
In 1765 he produced a volume of Oeuvres d'Architecture de Marie-Joseph Peyre, [1] which he dedicated, as "the fruit of my studies in Italy", to the marquis de Marigny, Pompadour's brother, who had been carefully trained for his opposition as Directeur des Bâtiments du Roi, and was attuned to the new classicism in the arts.
Unlike the Southern France, Paris has very few examples of Romanesque architecture; most churches and other buildings in that style were rebuilt in the Gothic style.The most remarkable example of Romanesque architecture in Paris is the church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, built between 990 and 1160 during the reign of Robert the Pious.
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.