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Interactive Travel Guide of Bordeaux

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Place Gambetta

Harmonious Façades

The city administrator Louis-Urbain Aubert, marquis de Tourny, in his embellishment programme, decided in 1746 to create a new square surrounded by harmonious façades each harbouring a mascaron in keeping with the spirit initiated with the construction of the Place de la Bourse.