The ideal city and the château of Richelieu, an expert architectural conception – Marie-Pierre Terrien

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, in the location of today's park of Richelieu, was located a castle built by the ancestors of the Cardinal, in a place called Richeloc. Attached as he was to the family house where he had passed part of his childhood, the Cardinal decided to enlarged the property in about 1625. Furthermore, the Cardinal wanted to found an ideal city, grandiose and unique, that would carry his name. If today the château has been destroyed, the town has remained more or less intact and constitues a unique example of the urbanism of the era…

The ideal city and the château of Richelieu, an expert architectural conception
by Marie-Pierre Terrien
184 pages, 14,5 x 20,5 cm
ISBN 2-7516-0195-2