Charles Jouas (1866-1942) L'Abbaye-aux-Bois (Paris, 7th arrondissement), 17 August 1906. Copper engraved with etching. 220 x 290. Bevelled, rounded corners. Titled and dated in the lower right-hand corner . The monastery was dismantled during the Revolution and transformed into a prison under the Terror. What remained of the monastery buildings was destroyed in 1907 when part of rue de Sèvres was enlarged and the land recovered contributed to the creation of rue Récamier and square Roger-Stéphane. Jouas sketches the vision of the abandoned places shortly before their destruction, like Huysmans who also described them with nostalgia.