[OISE] MAYOR, J. and MARNAS, Marius. Pierrefonds, the Castle - Lot 237

[OISE] MAYOR, J. and MARNAS, Marius. Pierrefonds, the Castle of Louis d’Orléans. Versailles, Éditions artistiques et scientifiques, n.d. [circa 1920]. Folio size, loose-leaf, in a publisher’s burgundy half-percale cardboard folder with an illustrated front cover. 12 pp. and 35 plates of heliotype photographs. Cardboard slipcase scuffed at the corners and edges, and slightly browned at the margins; half-title page also browned. A beautiful album containing 35 photographs by Marius Marnas (1875–1944), photographer of national palaces and museums. The Château de Pierrefonds is a medieval fortress built at the request of Louis d’Orléans to defend the region during the Hundred Years’ War. In 1617, by order of Louis XIII, the château was largely dismantled. Left in a state of ruin, it was restored beginning in 1857 by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc at the request of Napoleon III, who transformed it into a spectacular reinterpretation of the medieval castle. A fine copy.