bibliotheca-sanctus:Château d'Abbadie is a château in Hendaye, Pyrénées-At
bibliotheca-sanctus:Château d'Abbadie is a château in Hendaye, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France build for the explorer Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie. The château was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic Ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style, and is considered one of the most important examples of French Gothic Revival Architecture. It is divided in three parts : the observatory and library, the chapel, and the living quarters. Nowadays the château still belongs to the Academy of Science to which it was bequeathed in 1895 on condition of its producing a catalogue of half-a-million stars within fifty years’ time, with the work to be carried out by members of religious orders.When Antoine d'Abbadie bequeathed his chateau to the Academie of Sciences in 1896, there were more than 10.000 volumes in the library, from which 960 books written in Basque and 234 ancient biblical or literary manuscripts written in Geez, the Ethiopian language used for liturgy. -- source link
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