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The house located at Georges-Clémenceau courtyard and during the Intendance in Bordeaux is part of the architectural complex of Gambetta Square (former Dauphine Square), one of the city's major urban projects in the 18th century. This space, designed under the impulse of the intendant of Tourny around 1745, aimed to clean up and embellish Bordeaux by creating a rectangular square to the west of the old doors Dauphine and Dijeaux. Although the works were completed only between 1770 and 1780, the style of the surrounding buildings, including this house, reflected the classic cannons of the first half of the century, with a strict ordinance and harmonized facades.

Gambetta Square, second by its importance after the Place de la Bourse, became a strategic crossroads where the main routes of the city converged. The house in question, whose façade and roof were inscribed in the Historical Monuments by decree of 15 November 1927, illustrates this coherent urban heritage. Its location, at the corner of the course Georges-Clémenceau (then transversal street), underscores its role in structuring the Bordeaux public space, marked by straight arteries and a desire to embellish typical of the Enlightenment century.

The initial project of the intendant of Tourny was part of a broader policy of modernisation of Bordeaux, then in full economic expansion thanks to the maritime and wine trade. Dauphine Square, renamed Gambetta Square, symbolized this ambition, with buildings destined for a growing merchant bourgeoisie. The partial protection of this house in 1927 reflects the late recognition of this architectural heritage, characteristic of a time when Bordeaux was transformed into a majestic city, combining functionality and classical aesthetics.

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