Fireplace grate with symbols, Palais Jacques Coeur
Cast iron grate in the fireplace in the Lower North Gallery, with symbols resembling alchemy tools, in the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Fulcanelli stated that Jacques Coeur was an alchemist and hermetic symbols are found throughout the building. Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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13437188
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45126463
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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
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Photograph by Manuel Cohen
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