The Ramparts of Carcassonne. Artist: Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820-1884); Auguste Mestral (French, Rans 1812-1884 Rans). Dimensions: Image: 23.5 x 33.2 cm (9 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.)Mount: 31.2 x 45.2 cm (12 5/16 x 17 13/16 in.). Date: 1851.For the Missions Héliographiques, Le Gray was assigned the Loire Valley and the regions just to the south, toward Bordeaux; Mestral was to cover the southwest, from Bordeaux to Perpignan, and the Auvergne. But the two decided instead to travel together, sometimes photographing sites on one another's list and occasionally working in collaboration, as indicated by the inscription in Le Gray's hand at the lower right of this print, "Gustave Le Gray et Mestral." No site on their itinerary yielded more dramatic images than the city of Carcassonne, its thirteenth-century fortifications an outstanding model of medieval military architecture. These photographs are of special interest to modern viewers as a rare pictorial record of Carcassonne just prior to the

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The Ramparts of Carcassonne. Artist: Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820-1884); Auguste Mestral (French, Rans 1812-1884 Rans). Dimensions: Image: 23.5 x 33.2 cm (9 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.)Mount: 31.2 x 45.2 cm (12 5/16 x 17 13/16 in.). Date: 1851.For the Missions Héliographiques, Le Gray was assigned the Loire Valley and the regions just to the south, toward Bordeaux; Mestral was to cover the southwest, from Bordeaux to Perpignan, and the Auvergne. But the two decided instead to travel together, sometimes photographing sites on one another's list and occasionally working in collaboration, as indicated by the inscription in Le Gray's hand at the lower right of this print, "Gustave Le Gray et Mestral." No site on their itinerary yielded more dramatic images than the city of Carcassonne, its thirteenth-century fortifications an outstanding model of medieval military architecture. These photographs are of special interest to modern viewers as a rare pictorial record of Carcassonne just prior to the

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