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The house at 30 rue Pasteur in Pont-à-Mousson is a representative 18th-century civil building. Its architecture, although partially documented, reflects the aesthetic codes of the pre-revolutionary Lorraine, with a facade inscribed in the inventory of Historical Monuments since 1925. This type of building, often intended for a growing local bourgeoisie, illustrates the transition between classical styles and the beginnings of neoclassical influences.

Pont-à-Mousson, strategic city of Meurthe-et-Moselle, was at that time a commercial and intellectual crossroads in Lorraine. Bourgeois houses like this served both as a residence and as a symbol of social status for their owners, often merchants, notables or wealthy craftsmen. Their preservation today offers a material testimony of lifestyles and social hierarchies under the Old Regime, in an area marked by its duchy heritage and its exchanges with the French and Austrian crowns.

The inscription of the façade by order of 18 May 1925 underlines the heritage value of the building, although the available sources (including Monumentum) do not specify the exact criteria for this protection. No information is provided on any historical owners, major transformations, or a specific vocation (housing, commerce, etc.). Localization, noted as "passable" (level 5/10), suggests an approximation in current geographic data.

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