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Origin and history

The house in Parthenay, in the Deux-Sèvres department (New Aquitaine region), is a civil building dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. This monument illustrates the domestic architecture of the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a period marked by urban and social transformations. Its facades, listed in the inventory of Historical Monuments by decree of 13 July 1926, bear witness to the constructive techniques and decorations characteristic of this pivotal period.

In Parthenay, as in many cities in western France at that time, bourgeois or merchant houses reflected the growing prosperity of trade and crafts. These buildings served as both housing, workplaces (shops, workshops) and a symbol of social status. Their preservation today offers an overview of lifestyles, spatial organization and stylistic influences (late gothic, early Renaissance touches) that shaped the regional urban heritage.

The location of this house, in the rue de la Vau-Saint-Jacques, suggests an integration into a dense urban fabric, typical of medieval city centres remodeled during the Renaissance.

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