Plan, Royal Saltworks, Arc-et-Senans, Burgundy, France

Ledoux's second plan of the Saline Royale, a semicircular design, approved by King Louis XV in 1773, engraving, exhibited at the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The saltworks site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. a(c) Collection Saline Royale / Collection Manuel Cohen

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13437652

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45130461

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3072px x 2304px (2.8MB)

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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

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Photograph by Manuel Cohen