Paris: the Hôtel de Nevers (left) and the Tour de Nesle (right). Etching.

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1645
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18405i
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The Tour de Nesle was by repute the trysting place in 1314 of the daughters in law of King Philip the Fair (Philippe IV) and their lovers, the subject of the play "La Tour de Nesle" by F. Gaillardet and A. Dumas père, 1832. It was demolished in 1665 and was the site of the Institut de France and the Bibliothèque Mazarine

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1645

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1 print : etching

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Veuës et perspective de la Tour de Nesle et de l'Hostel de Nevers.

References note

Charles-Antoine Jombert, Essai d'un catalogue de l'oeuvre d'Étienne de la Belle peintre et graveur florentin disposé par ordre historique, Paris 1772, p. 110, no. 111.4
Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, tome cinquième, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1968, p. 22, Goyrand no. 28.4 ('28. Titre pour: Veues et pespectives nouvelles, tirées sur les plus beaux lieux de Paris et des environs: A Paris chez Israel [sic] au logis de Monsieur le Mercier orfèvre de la Reyne, près la croix du Tiroir". ... Jombert, 111 qui attribue la gravure du titre et des sept vues à Goyran, d'après les dessins de La Belle. ... 4. Vues et perspective de la tour de Nesles et de l'hôtel de Nevers. ....')

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Wellcome Collection 18405i

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Attributed by Charles-Antoine Jombert, op. cit., to Claude Goyrand, 1645, after Stefano Della Bella

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