Tour de Nesle

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Tour de Nesle.

Artist

Name:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Dates:: 1814-1879
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Buildings & Monuments
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Guillaumot, Eugène
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, vol. 9
Author:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Publisher:: Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1875
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View of the Tour de Nesle with the narrower and taller stair turret, the bridge, and and the city gate known as Porte de Nesle. According to Viollet-le-Duc, the first known mention of the tour de Nesle is from a 1210 document, in which it is referred to as Tornella Philippi Hamelini suprà Sequanam.

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{{cite web | title=Tour de Nesle | url=https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tour-nesle/ | author=Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel | year=1875 | access-date=April 26, 2024 | publisher=Old Book Illustrations}}