barrière Saint-Jacques

14th arrondissement of Paris, France

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The Barrière Saint-Jacques is a former tollgate in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, designed by the neoclassical architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux. Built as part of the late eighteenth-century tax collection infrastructure surrounding Paris, it exemplifies Ledoux's austere and geometric approach to utilitarian architecture, reducing the functional barrier to its essential formal elements.