"Viollet-le-duc - History Of A Fortress. Hetzel, Circa 1885, Binding Signed Tiessen."
VIOLLET-LE-DUC - History of a Fortress. Paris, Hetzel, circa 1885; 4to, 368 pp., brown half-cloth binding signed Tiessen in Nancy, smooth spine, gilt edges. Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, a mid-19th-century French architect, well-known for his renovations of historic monuments under the leadership of Prosper Mérimée, restored Carcassonne, Pierrefonds, Nancy, and Notre-Dame de Paris. But the number of buildings reworked by his expertise is countless, as the number and quality of his works prove. Many architects were inspired by this architectural theorist, such as Guimard, Horta, Gaudi, Wright, and others. His greatest work remains the Dictionnaire raisonné de l'Architecture.