French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century (1900) (14764328792)

Identifier: frencharchitects00dilk (find matches)
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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neral des batiments du Roi. Eventhen Jacques-Ange was mainly occupied by the completion of thevarious undertakings which Jacques-Jules had —as at Bordeaux— left unfinished. It was not until 1751, when Louis XV. decided 1 1698-1782. R. Acad. Arch., 1728. A. de PA. fr., t. i., p. 421. For par-ticulars as to the family see Sourdeval, Le chateau de la Roche-Racan ; also Bul-letin de la Soc. de Phist. de lArt fr., p. 202 ; N. A. de lArt. fr., 1876, p. 316; andBauchal, Nouv. Did. Arch, fr. 2 See note 2, p. 15. He acquired the charge of Comptroller-general in 1687from his uncle, Jules-Hardouin Mansart, for 80,000 It. Bauchal, Nouv. Diet.Arch, fr. 3 Under the letters patent of July, 1728. A. de lA. fr., t. i., p. 421. 4 He was named Conseiller honoraire de lAcademie de Peinture et de Sculp-ture on 30th June, 1742, and Direcleur de lAcademie des Archite6r.es, 1743.A. de lA. fr., t. i., pp. 385, 424. 22 Ecole Miijtaire. By Jacques-Ange Gabriel.(Place dc Fontenay et Avenue de la Motte-Piquet.)
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sors. to found a school for the sons of poor nobles, that the opportunity Jacques-arose for his first great work—the Ecole Militaire. Gabriel This building was intended to receive five hundred pupils, as and hiswell as a large staff of officials of every description and their Succes-families.1 The utility of the scheme was severely criticised : il n'y a pas d'apparence, writes Grimm, que les philosophes et les gens sensés qui pensent soient jamais enthousiastes de ce vain et somptueux établissement. 2 Cochin follows in the same strain.The vast extent, he says, of the mad project for the Ecole Militaire has prevented its execution; only the sixth part has been constructed. 3 Other allusions to the progress of the work constantly occur in contemporary writers. Bachaumont, of course, does not forget it, 4 and frequent references are to be found in the correspondence of Natoire, then Director of the School of France at Rome. On March 1st, 1752, he writes to Antoine Duchesne, prevot des batiments, s