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Intérieur d'une tourelle à La Mercerie, Magnac Lavalette (France)
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Inside a tiny room in the northwest turret of the castle of La Mercerie - Magnac Lavalette (Charente) - Nouvelle Aquitaine - France. The castle of La Mercerie, originally composed of a neo-gothic manor house from the end of the 19th century, was acquired in 1924 by the Réthoré brothers, Raymond, an industrialist and then a Gaullist deputy from the Charente, and Alphonse, a self-taught architect. Passionate and fond of art, they undertook to enlarge and improve it. In 1941, Alphonse began designing a wing in the Gabriel style. This first wing was followed by a second one, and finally led to a neo-classical facade 220 meters long (listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest ever built in the 20th century). Unfinished at their death, the castle of La Mercerie fell into neglect, due to a lack of maintenance, the roofs were quicly damaged and the interior decorations deteriorated. After many ups and down, in 2011, the municipality of Magnac-Lavalette and a volunteer association undertook a restoration of the built parts and works of art in order to open the castle to visitors in 2013 after 30 years of abandonment. Among other things, the Réthoré brothers decorated each room, even the smallest like this one, with panels of quotations in homage to famous personalities, in this case the French essayists La Bruyère and Voltaire.
Copyright: Alain Auzeral
Type: Spherical
Resolution: 14504x7252
Taken: 03/07/2022
Uploaded: 08/07/2022
Published: 08/07/2022
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Tags: castle; turret; chateau; lamercerie; quotations; magnaclavalette; angoumois; charente; nouvelleaquitaine; france
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France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.Text by Steve Smith.


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