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03-MAY-2011 Marisa

The Town Hall – another face of the architecture of Rennes.

Rennes - Bretagne (France)

We left, temporarily, the old medieval streets to discover a different kind of architecture in town.
This is the monumental Town Hall, which was built after the big fire of 1720, which had destroyed a great part of the ancient wooden houses.

Do you see the empty niche?
Once there was a statue of King Louis XV there, but it was pulled down during the Revolution, later they tried to put there an allegoric statue of Bretagne - represented by Queen Anne de Bretagne- joining France as faithful subject, but it seems that some proud nationalists of Bretagne didn’t like it…

Well to make a long story shorter they decided at the end to leave the niche empty!
We preferred to ignore all nationalistic diatribes, but I can only tell you that we had a nice lunch in this square.


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Lieve Snellings27-May-2011 03:45
love the light, the sky and your composition ! V
Barbara Read and Fred Schaad27-May-2011 02:45
They should put back King Louis. ;o)
A grand old building and a fine shot. V
Graeme26-May-2011 21:52
I love that clock tower and its ornate design, Marisa.Vote