French architecture Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/french-architecture Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:50:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 What To Do In Paris France http://toursmaps.com/what-to-do-in-paris-france.html http://toursmaps.com/what-to-do-in-paris-france.html#respond Sun, 23 Sep 2018 01:28:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=260892 Versailles: town Designers propose; common humanity disposes, thank God. Versailles town is the real proof of the success of the French Revolution, and a key to the astonishing resilience of Parisians. Louis-le-Grand in his witless way carved up the town in front of the chateau with three huge avenues. Also, vain as well as witless, he discouraged conspicuous decoration in his courtiers’ buildings in case it invited comparison. Hence an austere town grew up; on a formal plan, with a few formal gestures interrupted by boulevards as brutally as Haussmann’s Paris. And it has turned out to be a wonderful

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