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| Keywords: Gustave Le Gray, The Tour St-Jacques, 1859.jpg Towering over the buildings around it this Parisian landmark was recently restored and surrounded by newly planted trees just before Gustave Le Gray photographed it The tower is all that remains of a church built in the 1500s and demolished in 1797 During the reign of Napoléon III many Paris buildings were torn down to make way for wider streets or new structures The Gothic Tour Saint-Jacques was spared this fate thanks to massive public protests 1859 Albumen print Size cm 50 39 7 Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 68417 credit line accession number 84 XP 218 18 PD-100 Photographs by Gustave Le Gray Historical images of Tour Saint-Jacques 1859 in Paris 19th-century photographs of Paris Albumen prints 1859 photographs Photographs in the Getty Museum | ||||
