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Following the success of Sylvaine Margaine's first book, Forbidden Places, Abandoned France continues his journey in search of forbidden and often overlooked places. He draws attention to the dramatic fate of the country's heritage, the preservation of which has become a matter for serious reflection. An exceptional photographic report. Brand new title in Jonglez's highly acclaimed series of books that take readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside different countries' forgotten heritage. Captivating, explorative photography exposes the forgotten places and sheds light on a long-abandoned world. Thought-provoking images and text enable readers to visit the abandoned Gandrange steelworks, the decommissioned Uckange blast furnaces in Lorraine, a marine graveyard in Brittany, a forgotten chateau on the outskirts of Paris, a derelict sanatorium in the Alps, a military fort in the Pyrenees. For readers who love old things, old places, forgotten places, once elegant places of once thriving businesses. The photographs and text bring these forgotten places back to life.

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Sylvain Margaine: born in 1977, is an engineer. Since 1998 he has been identifying and photographing the world's forgotten heritage and publishing these urban explorations on his website: www.forbidden- places.net. David Margaine: born in 1980, is a pharmacist by trade. For the past twelve years he has been working as a writer, composer and performer with several groups of musicians from the Bordeaux alternative scene.

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