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Les Abattoirs de Versailles

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Year:
1835
Contributor:
Normand, Louis Marie, 1789-1874 (architect)
Douchain, Baptiste
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses > Design and construction > France
City Planning > Construction
1848-1852 (The Second Republic)
1852-1870 (The Second Empire)
Local ID:
2-SIZE NA7348 .P2 N6 v.2
Extent:
4 p. (12 engravings)

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Abstract:
A series of engravings representing blueprints, section drawings and a facade sketching of the slaughterhouse of Versailles. The first page contains a detailed engraving of the ground floor blueprint.
Notes:
Pierre-Jean Baptiste Douchain, architect of the slaughterhouse of Versailles, is also the architect of its 19th century jail, and of the courthouse.
Extensive foxing on plate 87.

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No Copyright - United States
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Collection is open for research.

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"Les Abattoirs de Versailles" (1835). Paris: Capital of the 19th Century. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:251283/

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