[shoemaker]. Project For The Reconstruction Of The Town Hall Of Bailleul (north). [1920s].

Indian ink. 38.8 x 38 cm visible, in a 54.8 x 53 cm frame. Two tears without loss on the right of the sheet. Pencil inscriptions on the marie-louise: "Project for the reconstruction of the Bailleul town hall" bottom left; "Louis Marie Cordonnier, 1854-1940" bottom right. Animated view of the square – today Place Charles de Gaulle – with a proposal for the reconstruction of the town hall, which had been almost entirely destroyed, like a large part of the town, during the First World War. The town hall was rebuilt in the early 1930s by the architects Louis Marie Cordonnier, René and Maurice Dupire, Louis Roussel and Jacques Barbotin, in a typically Flemish style. The proposal in our drawing is very close to what was actually done, with some differences, notably in the belfry. In the background, we see the bell tower of the Saint-Vaast church, which was also rebuilt by Louis Marie Cordonnier, but a few years before the reconstruction of the town hall and the belfry. The upper part of the bell tower is different in the drawing from what was actually built. Ref. A13-40