ITR4713945: Trophee representing an allegory of the Sun King on the Porte de France, Citadelle de Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Lorraine. Architecture by Sebastien Le Prestre, Marquis de Vauban (1633-1707), 1678-1690. The Porte de France is decorated with trophees. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4714199: The Doree Tower of the Fort of Camaret-sur-Mer (Camaret sur Mer), Finistere, Brittany, France. Architecture by Sebastien Le Prestre, Marquis de Vauban (1633-1707). The Vauban Tower had the task of monitoring the entrance of the Brest Gullet and the root of the Roscanvel Presquíile, through which the enemy could have sneaked into the Brest harbour. Still unfinished, the Doree Tower underwent its baptism with fire on 18 June 1694. Vauban breaks the assault of 147 Anglo-Dutch ships trying to unlock. Beautifully built, the tower is the prototype and the best example of a fort at the Vauban Sea with low battery and gorge tower. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4711130: L'Hotel de Sully, 62 rue Saint-Antoine (Saint Antoine), Paris 4. Architecture by Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585-1649), 1625-1630. The hotel de Sully was built between 1625 and 1630 by the master macon Jean Notin, on plans of Jean I Androuet du Cerceau, for the financier Mesme-Gallet. Sully became owner on 23 February 1634. He lived there and passed it on to his family. Henri IV's Superintendent of Finance will lavishly decorate his new home, without staying there assiduously. The hotel was sold to Benoit Turgot de Saint-Clair in 1752, before becoming the property of the family of Boisgelin 1771. Today it houses Monum, the former National Historic Monument Fund. / Bridgeman Images