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During the first decades of the colonization of Algeria, the French authorities worked to transform the Arab city of Algiers into a stronghold. At the end of the 1850s, the political project was accompanied by proposals for urban planning aimed at improving commercial and tourist activity. In 1860,...
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | During the first decades of the colonization of Algeria, the French authorities worked to transform the Arab city of Algiers into a stronghold. At the end of the 1850s, the political project was accompanied by proposals for urban planning aimed at improving commercial and tourist activity. In 1860, the architect Charles-Frédéric Chassériau (1802-1896) designed the seafront, with its long boulevard de l’Impé ratrice stretching over almost two kilometers, built on arcades containing warehouses. Its Haussmann style buildings would carry on the metamorphosis of the old city into a modern metropolis of the south of France by continuing to amputate a part of its ancient constructions. Saint-Simonian artist, living in Algeria since a few of years, and especially interested in the indigenous monuments and architecture, Peter Hawke (1801-1886) represented views of this Algiers destined for destruction. His ink drawing of the Marine Quarter, at the beginning of the construction of the seafront in1862, constitutes a unique testimony that participates in an awareness of the disappearance of an ancient heritage of buildings in France under the Second Empire. |
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