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Le Picart House (1763) and Dumont House (1689) in Place-Royale, Quebec City

By Couvrette, Sébastien

Quebec’s Place-Royale, the Reflection of a City

Quebec City’s Place-Royale was entirely rebuilt between the late 1960s and the 1980s. Work undertaken on the site’s buildings was intended to bestow them with a heritage character evocative of the French Regime. The primary goal of this ambitious renovation project, funded by the governments of Quebec and Canada, was to make Place-Royale a major tourist attraction in Quebec City. In the process, it restored one of the site’s earliest functions as a symbolic city centre.       

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