Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison
Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façade et toiture : inscription par arrêté du 9 juin 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/06/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 20 place des Religieuses
- Commune
- Richelieu
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.01544, 0.32296
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098020
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le cardinal de Richelieu décida de transformer le village où il était né en une ville dont les plans furent tracés par l'architecte du château, Jacques Lemercier. La ville présente un plan régulier, avec fossés, mur d'enceinte, portes monumentales, rues symétriques et maisons alignées.
English translation
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History
The cardinal de Richelieu decided to transform the village where he was born into a town whose plans were drawn by the architect of the castle, Jacques Lemercier. The town presents a regular plan, with ditches, enclosure wall, monumental gates, symmetrical streets and aligned houses.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.