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Trying to build an old French public building
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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 08:08 AM UTC
To go with the statue project I described in the past, I wanted to find a public building to go with it. I've looked up Fernch town halls but all I can find are huge Taj Mahals. Certainly there must be some that are more modest? I don't expect to make an exact replica, but something that look properly for the time and place.
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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 10:51 AM UTC

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looked up Fernch town halls but all I can find are huge Taj Mahals.


Use the word mairie in a search which is the French for Town Hall? Look for a smaller provinical building...
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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 12:32 PM UTC
This is about as modest as it gets. I'm sure you could easily convert it to suit your needs:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-35-MiniArt-35513-FRENCH-CAFE-NIB-/320675019027?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa9b87913
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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 02:17 PM UTC

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looked up Fernch town halls but all I can find are huge Taj Mahals.


Use the word mairie in a search which is the French for Town Hall? Look for a smaller provinical building...

Thanks, I never would have known that. Now I have a basis to work with.

Some of the buildings depicted were marked "Mairie", but I'm uncertain if that was the standard practice long ago.
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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 06:55 PM UTC
Hi Tom,

I guess you are looking for a small medium village townhall ?
For them, during WW2, all of them were marked "mairie" in the front of the batiment. Due to the people going to cities rather to staying in the countryside, now most of the village have merged the primary school, the townhall and sometime the postmail. But in ww2 it wasn't the case.
typical townhall would look like this :
http://www.boignysurbionne.fr/images/stories/boigny/mairie.JPG
http://www.tourisme-verrieres-91.fr/site/IMG/jpg/La_mairie_avant_1938.jpg
http://www.ranes1944.org/Images/AvantWWII/Mairie6.jpg

You can also try the keyword "hotel de ville"
Hope this helps

Best,
Julien
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Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011 - 12:01 AM UTC

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Hi Tom,

I guess you are looking for a small medium village townhall ?
For them, during WW2, all of them were marked "mairie" in the front of the batiment. Due to the people going to cities rather to staying in the countryside, now most of the village have merged the primary school, the townhall and sometime the postmail. But in ww2 it wasn't the case.
typical townhall would look like this :
http://www.boignysurbionne.fr/images/stories/boigny/mairie.JPG
http://www.tourisme-verrieres-91.fr/site/IMG/jpg/La_mairie_avant_1938.jpg
http://www.ranes1944.org/Images/AvantWWII/Mairie6.jpg

You can also try the keyword "hotel de ville"
Hope this helps

Best,
Julien

Thanks. But by the way, the scenario in question takes place in World War One.
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Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011 - 01:08 AM UTC
Tom,
There hasn't been many changes to the franch vilage townhall between the two wars. Even if the townhall has been destroyes, at such period it would have been been rebuild exactely the same :
http://www.seraincourt-08.com/categorie-10985686.html
What's important is that you have the word 'mairie' above the main entrance, a clock at the op of the building and potentially a bell.

Best,
Julien
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