Exterior view
by PASCAL, Jean-Louis, Photo
In the 1870s Pascal took part in three major public competitions: for the reconstruction of the H�tel de Ville, Paris (1873); for the Sacr�-Coeur basilica in Paris (1874); and for the faculty of medicine in Bordeaux (1876). He built the last of these projects between 1880 and 1888, modifying his first plan after a journey abroad during which he studied the layouts of similar buildings. A particular concern was that the fa�ades should harmonize with their 18th-century surroundings, planned by Jacques Gabriel V.
The building now houses the Faculty of Sociology of the Bordeaux University.