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Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Lyons ; for thepleasure-house of the Bishop of Metz; for the episcopal palace ofStrasburg ; for the Soleil dor which Claude Ballin has toexecute for the high-altar of Notre-Dame.8 The high-altar, one of 1 See the vicomte G. dAvenel on the work of M. Lesousfache, Le Mecanismede la Vie Moderne, p. 107. 2 1656-1735. R. Acad. Arch., 1687 ; Arch, du roi, 1689 ; A. de PA. fr., t. i.,p. 419 ; 1st arch., 1708 ; Bauchal, p. 158. 3 His place as controleur general des batiments du roi was purchased in 1687for his cousin, Jacques-Jules Gabriel. See Bauchal, Nouveau Dictionnaire desArchitects Francais, p. 397, and N. A. de lA. fr., 1876, p. 327. * Pig. de la F., t. i., p. 24; Papiers de Cotte, Sup. Fr. 2724, No. 50; Bibl. Nat.Recueil des dessins, R. de Cotte, Cab. des Estampes. 5 See Curiositez de Paris, ed. 1742, t. i., p. 198, et seq. 8 See Destailleurs, LOrnementation des Appartements, t. i., Robert de Cotte. 7 A. de lA. fr., t. v., p. 246. 8 See the plates in Blondel, Architecture Francaise. 8
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de Cottes best known works, was swept away at the beginning of The the present century (1809). Lautel, says Legrand, with much JJCuse satisfaction, a eti refait en marbre sur mes dessins. 1 The Por- and the tail de St. Roch, another of de Cottes titles to fame, could not G™at 111 Placesbe demolished so easily, or it would, probably, have shared the same fate, although, according to the same critic, it does not yet reveal la depravation du gout qui a suivi . . . cest le premier pas fait pour y arriver. 2 Legrand condemned this portico, as a mere decoration en basrelief, but if it has not the desired merits of a peristyle, theisolated columns of which would have afforded shelter to thepassers-by, we must admit that it is a noble decoration, placed withdignity on the base of steps which raise it above the sordid levelof the street, and taking the eye with a certain quiet strength notalways to be found in work which shows traces in its style of Jesuitdescent. The first stone was not lai

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