HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL DONNET ARCHEVEQUE DE BORDEAUX, - Lot 803

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HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL DONNET ARCHEVEQUE DE BORDEAUX, - Lot 803
HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL DONNET ARCHEVEQUE DE BORDEAUX, "Sénateur de l'Empire" - Color lithograph portrait dated 1870, 15.5 x 11.5 cm on large wove paper 37 x 25.5 cm - signed L. Bernard 77 rue de Rivoli. Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet, born in Bourg Argental / Loire in 1795, died in Bordeaux in 1882 - His episcopate, which was marked by his highly controversial sense of architecture, lasted 47 years. He wanted to make houses of worship grandiose, to bear witness to the liveliness of faith as in the Middle Ages. 310 churches, 100 bell towers, 30 presbyteries and a large number of chapels will be demolished, transformed, rebuilt or renovated, out of the 605 churches in the 554 communes of the Gironde.
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