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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, an Uncommon card
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and writer, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 55,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne, and Château de Roquetaillade in the Bordeaux region.
- His writings on decoration and on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a fundamental influence on a whole new generation of architects, including all the major Art Nouveau artists: Antoni Gaudí, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Henry van de Velde, Henri Sauvage and the École de Nancy, Paul Hankar, Otto Wagner, Eugène Grasset, Émile Gallé, and Hendrik Petrus Berlage.
- He also influenced the first modern architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Auguste Perret, Louis Sullivan, and Le Corbusier, who considered Viollet-le-Duc as the father of modern architecture.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Eugène Viollet-le-Duc article was read about 55,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nadar, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

