Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France, 14 BC

** Maison Carrée, Paris

* Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France, is built ( approximate date ).

Also, the Maison Carrée is one of the best preserved temples to be found anywhere in the territory of the former Roman Empire.

During that period Nîmes was jointly administered by a lay power resident in the old amphitheatre, where lived the Viguier and the Knights of the Arena, and the religious power based in the Bishop's palace complex, around the cathedral, its chapter and the Bishop's house ; meanwhile the city was represented by four Consuls, who sat in the Maison Carrée.

Also in this period the Fountain gardens, the Quais de la Fontaine, were laid out, the areas surrounding the Maison Carrée and the Amphitheatre were cleared of encroachments, whilst the entire population benefited from the atmosphere of prosperity.

* The Maison Carrée ( Square House ), a small Roman temple dedicated to sons of Agrippa was built c. 19 BC.

The Roman Maison Carrée, Nîmes, illustrating the Roman version of a stylobate.

Temples and statues were erected in their honour ( as in the case of the Maison Carrée in Nîmes ).

The Maison Carrée, Nîmes

In 1806 Napoleon made his decision to erect a memorial, a Temple de la Gloire de la Grande Armée (" Temple to the Glory of the Great Army "); following an elaborate competition with numerous entries and a jury that decided on a design by the architect Claude Étienne de Beaumont ( 1757 – 1811 ), the Emperor trumped all, instead commissioning Pierre-Alexandre Vignon ( 1763 – 1828 ) to build his design on an antique temple ( Compare the Maison Carrée, in Nîmes ) The then-existing foundations were razed, preserving the standing columns, and work begun anew.

The Madeleine is built in the Neo-Classical style and was inspired by the Maison Carrée at Nîmes, one of the best-preserved of all Roman temples.

File: Nimes maison carrée. jpg | Cornice of the Maison Carrée, Nîmes

The Maison Carrée is an ancient building in Nîmes, southern France ; it is one of the best preserved temples to be found anywhere in the territory of the former Roman Empire.

The Maison Carrée is an example of Vitruvian architecture.

These were demolished when the Maison Carrée housed what is now the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes ( from 1821 to 1907 ), restoring it to the isolation it would have enjoyed in Roman times.

This provides a startling contrast to the Maison Carrée but renders many of its features, such as the portico and columns, in steel and glass.

* Official Website of Maison Carrée ( English )

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Maison des Sciences de l ' Homme and Cambridge University Press.

Un Crime dans une Maison de Fous, by André de Lorde: Two hags in an insane asylum use scissors to blind a young, pretty fellow inmate out of jealousy.

fr: Maison de Hohenstaufen

* 1926: Maison de santé

* 1969: La Maison de campagne, directed by Jean Girault

* La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin

In 1981 a team of researchers from the Maison de l ' Orient et de la Méditerranée, including Jacques Cauvin and Oliver Aurenche divided Near East neolithic chronology into ten periods ( 0 to 9 ) based on social, economic and cultural characteristics.

fr: Maison de Babenberg

Today the Maison de Balzac is one of Paris's three literary museums.

The term House of Bourbon or " Maison de Bourbon " could be used to refer to this first house and the House of Bourbon-Dampierre, the second family to rule the seigneury.

La Maison de Bourbon, 1256 – 1987.

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" He was simultaneously appointed director of the Maison de France, opening the possibility of a future cultural-diplomatic career.

" Folie et deraison " originated as Foucault's doctoral dissertation ; this was Foucault's first major book, mostly written while he was the Director of the Maison de France in Sweden.

F. Lecocq, Cahiers de la Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, n ° 41, Caen, 2005.

* La culture du riz dans le delta du Tonkin, Paris: Maison des Sciences de l ' Homme, 1995

His home in Blois is open to the public as the publicly owned La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin.

The buildings were restored in 1919-1920, on the plans of the communal architect E. Bertiaux and are occupied by the Maison de la Presse.

The Maison de la Fontaine in Recouvrance ( Brest ) | Recouvrance, one of the oldest houses of Brest ( end of the 17th century, beginning of the 18th century ).

Those two names came from, respectively, Samuel Bing's gallery Maison de l ' Art Nouveau in Paris and the magazine Jugend in Munich, both of which promoted and popularised the style.

Maison de l ' Art Nouveau ( House of New Art ) was the name of the gallery initiated during 1895 by the German art dealer Samuel Bing in Paris that featured exclusively modern art.

By 1890, Lalique was recognized as one of France's foremost Art Nouveau jewellery designers ; creating innovative pieces for Samuel Bing's new Paris shop, Maison de l ' Art Nouveau.