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- 13.5 x 21 cm
- 368 pages
- 50 black and white illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8316-6
- Text in French only
Under the Third Republic, the architectural and urban development of Rennes ran in parallel with the changes in its social structure. The arrival of the railway, with the inauguration of the station in 1857, constituted a decisive opportunity for the city. From an administrative capital and garrison town, it became a university town, a commercial and agricultural crossroads, and a winter residence for the rural aristocracy. This work analyzes the relationships between creation and clients, in a period of class rivalry which strongly influenced architectural aesthetics. Buildings become symbols of doctrinal and ideological positions. With the separation of Church and State, the issue which, at the end of the century, constituted the relationship between the castle or the church with the secular school and the gendarmerie lost its meaning. Twenty years later, the crisis shook the bourgeois elites, shifting the debate to the field of regional identity and taste as a guarantee of social belonging. With Art Deco, middle-class architecture entered the history of the 20th century.