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Lord Dufferin's Medieval Dream: How a 19th-Century Governor Wanted Québec to Look Like Carcassonne.
Every old city has a founding myth. Québec's fortifications have a Victorian one — and it comes with a lord who fell in love with a French dream and clashed with an engineer's staircase logic.
theriaultcharles
Sep 120 min read
Lord Dufferin's Medieval Dream: How a 19th-Century Governor Wanted Québec to Look Like Carcassonne
Every old city has a founding myth. Québec's fortifications have a Victorian one — and it comes with a lord who fell in love with a French dream and clashed with an engineer's staircase logic.
theriaultcharles
Sep 120 min read
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