Lille In 1860: Four Lithographs By Deroy

Interesting mixed frame consisting of four lithographs by Deroy, representing views of Lille. The Porte de Paris, if it still exists, is nothing more than an urban monument, today deprived of its function and its ramparts. The courthouse and the prison, then recently built in the 1860s, were razed and replaced by contemporary buildings. The avenue was then called the Quai de la Basse Deule. If the gate of the citadel still exists, in a green park, I do not believe that the first gate in front, less important, on the curtain wall, was affected. As for the delightful little canal, I doubt that if it still exists, its environment is as bucolic. It is therefore a set of pretty documents on a very different city of Lille. Isidore Laurent Deroy (1797-1886) was a painter, watercolorist, and lithographer who illustrated France in the mid-19th century.