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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(s):
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Publisher:
- Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1875
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
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.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, France, medieval, Paris, reference book, tower