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History

After the Place de la Bourse, that of Gambetta (former Place Dauphine) is the most important urban architectural ensemble of Bordeaux. The main roads converge there. It is surrounded by buildings from the second half of the 18th century, built according to a classical arrangement. Around 1745, the intendant de Tourny, continuing his work of sanitation and embellishment of the city, ordered the formation of a square on land situated to the west of the Porte Dauphine and Porte Dijeaux. In 1750, the Jurats took out a loan to found and raise the façades of the uniform houses of the square, composed of a ground floor with arcades bearing a storey, an attic and a roof space. In 1762, the architect had the intendant Boutin accept a new plan for the decoration of the façades, simpler than the first. It consisted of suppressing the planned avant-corps and balustrades, and crowning the houses with a simple entablature and roof space. The square was not completed until between 1770 and 1780, but the style remains that of the first half of the 18th century. At each of the angles of the rectangular square two important arteries open. The arrangement of the buildings comprises an ashlar façade. On the ground floor, a regular arcade with rusticated jambs framing the door. An entresol with small windows is fitted into the curve of the arcade. On the first floor are large French windows crowned with sculptured mascarons and fitted with wrought iron balconies. Some buildings have a second storey.