Hôtel des Postes de Chartres

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Hôtel des Postes de Chartres
Rue du Général-Kœnig / boulevard Maurice-Viollette
Chartres, July 2002

“The Hôtel des Postes is a former Post Office located in Chartres, French department of Eure-et-Loir, at the corner of Boulevard Maurice-Viollette and Rue du Général-Koenig. The building now houses the ‘Apostrophe’ media library in Chartres. The architect of the building was Raoul Brandon, born in 1878 in the town of Lucé located on the western edge of Chartres. Its construction lasted five years, from 1923 to 1928. The mosaics are the work of Édouard Blin. The old murals adorning the room receiving the public were made in 1929 by Pierre Vaillant (1878-1939), son of Charles Émile Vaillant, architect of the department of Eure-et-Loir who had Raoul Brandon as a student. They represent three large harvest scenes from Beauce , as well as illustrations of monuments in the department, such as the castles of Frazé and Anet. These works were destroyed in the 1970s. The facades and roofs were listed as historical monuments in 1994. In 2007, after a complete renovation of the interior of the building by Paul Chemetov, the building received its new function as the media library of the city of Chartres. In 2016 the building received the ‘Patrimoine du XXe siècle’ label from the Ministry of Culture.” (Hôtel des Postes de Chartres, Wikipedia)