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Place Alphonse-Laveran

Mansart, François
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/169426
Date
1646
Description
North fountain, seen from the intersection of Rue du Val-de-Grâce (foreground); This site consists of the space created in front of the church of Val-de-Grâce by Rue Val-de-Grâce and the Rue Saint-Jacques. It exists because Mansart planned a set back from the street for the church; the size of which was precisely calculated so that from the forecourt the dome would disappear completely behind the frontispiece. It takes its name (in 1930) from the military doctor and bacteriologist Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922). Laveran won the Nobel Prize in 1907. The two modern fountains were installed in 1995. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/31/2014)
Type of Work
square (open space); fountain
Subject
architecture, cityscape, City planning, Seventeenth century
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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