The Ideal Palace is totally unique and has inspired artists for more than a century. Independent from any artistic movement and built without regard for any architectural rules, it was admired by the surrealists and has been recognized as a work of Art Brut. In 1969 it was classified as a historical monument, in the category of naïve art, by the Minister of Cultural Affairs Edmond Michelet who thus followed up on the steps that his predecessor André Malraux had initiated in this respect.
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