France: Richelieu model town street
Grande Rue, Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire, France.
Richelieu is a French 17th-century model 'new town'. It was built at the order of Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), a clergyman, nobleman, and statesman who had spent his youth here and bought the village of his ancestors. He engaged the architect Jacques Lemercier and with the permission of King Louis XIII, he created from scratch a walled town on a grid arrangement, and, enclosing within its volumes the modest home of his childhood, an adjacent palace, the Château de Richelieu.
Construction took place between 1631 and 1642 (the year of the Cardinal's death) and employed around 2000 workers.
The Château de Richelieu was demolished for building materials in 1805. The walled gardens of the Château remain and are open as a public park.
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France: Richelieu model town street
Grande Rue, Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire, France.
Richelieu is a French 17th-century model 'new town'. It was built at the order of Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), a clergyman, nobleman, and statesman who had spent his youth here and bought the village of his ancestors. He engaged the architect Jacques Lemercier and with the permission of King Louis XIII, he created from scratch a walled town on a grid arrangement, and, enclosing within its volumes the modest home of his childhood, an adjacent palace, the Château de Richelieu.
Construction took place between 1631 and 1642 (the year of the Cardinal's death) and employed around 2000 workers.
The Château de Richelieu was demolished for building materials in 1805. The walled gardens of the Château remain and are open as a public park.
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