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Article: Courting rights. (law courts, Strasbourg, France)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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Strasbourg is one of Europe's most pleasant cities, with its medieval core on an island between the river III and the urban moat. The core is surrounded by elegant nineteenth-century suburbs in which Art Nouveau and Jugendstil are mixed as almost nowhere else, for Strasbourg, a rich city on the west bank of the Rhine, has been struggled over by France and the German powers throughout its history. It was part of Germany from 1870 to 1918 (and again of course from 1940-1944); during the first of these periods, the newly unified and increasingly prosperous German Empire was anxious to make its mark on its possession and on the whole did so with a good deal of elegance and ...