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Origin and history

On 21 June 1723 a fire ravaged Châteaudun, destroying more than a thousand houses. Jules Hardouin, the building controller, was responsible for reconstruction. He drew a chessboard plan centered on a large rectangular square, surrounded by arcade shops and public buildings. Two of the four large pavilions were built, including the stone town hall (1777).

The square, designed as a rectangle with a large side equivalent to the diagonal of a square built on the small side, was to accommodate four prominent buildings. Only those at the bottom were realized, while the other two were replaced by a post office hotel in 1900. The facades and roofs overlooking the square, with a return to the streets of Chartres and Toutfaire, were inscribed in the Historical Monuments in 1953.

The exact address of the building is 33 place du 18-October in Châteaudun (Eure-et-Loir), in the region Centre-Val de Loire. This urban project, marked by a rigorous geometry, reflects the architectural principles of the eighteenth century and the desire to modernize the city after the disaster. The current GPS location is considered satisfactory a priori (note: 6/10).

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