7.—House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443)details

7.—House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443)

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“‘Second only in importance to the churches and religious buildings come the military and domestic buildings of the Gothic period (Fig. 7).”

A perspective view of a complex house with a courtyard. Jacques cœur, or James Coeur, was the richest private citizen in Europe, a French merchant, but seems to have been brought down and ruined by some at the court. See the entry for James Coeur in the 1812 dictionary of biography.

buildings, diagrams, rooves, towers, manors

Bourges, Cher, France

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