Dinesh's photos with the keyword: The Discovery of France

The castle of Pierrefonds, built by Louis d’Orleans (equestrian statue) in the fifteenth century, sold as a ruin after the Revolution, rebuilt by Viollet-le-Due in the 1860s as a fairy-tale palace. Compiegne (town hall top left) lay on the other side of the forest, which was landscaped and signposted for Napoleon III’s empress, Eugenie. This poster (c.1895) advertised the Northern railway company’s high-speed link from the Gare du Nord in Paris