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0 Euro - Pessac - Cité Frugès
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs / UEJD (Union Européenne des Journaux de la Défense) |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a Le Corbusier-designed residential unit at the Cité Frugès in Pessac, rendered in a polychrome illustrative style against a guilloche underprint. The UNESCO World Heritage designation is noted via inscription. Serial prefix and denomination zero appear at lower left and right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CITE FRUGES - PESSAC EUROSOUVENIR 2016-1 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR LE CORBUSIER PATRIMOINE MONDIALE DE L'UNESCO R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEJD |
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The Cité Frugès in Pessac was designed by Le Corbusier between 1924 and 1926 at the commission of industrialist Henri Frugès, who wanted a model workers' housing estate built from his sugar-refining profits. The project was radical enough that local authorities initially refused connection to the municipal water supply. By the time UNESCO inscribed the site as part of its 2016 Le Corbusier World Heritage listing — the same year this note was issued — decades of resident modifications had altered most of the original interiors beyond recognition.
Oberthur Fiduciaire printed the broader 2016 souvenir zero-euro series under license from the Eurosouvenirs program, giving these notes genuine security paper and features despite carrying no monetary value.