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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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by Gabriel with a view to render-ing the chateau a more private residence, where the king could givelittle suppers round his famous table volante and be free fromirksome social restraints. Bellevue, also, on the interior of whichevery resource of art was lavished by Mme. de Pompadour, was abuilding of even more unpretending appearance than the PetitTrianon. Her mania for building has been said to have madearchitecture the fashion,4 but at the same time architects were in •Mem. Cochin, p. 110. M. Desjardins ( Le Petit Trianon, p. 33) is mistakenin supposing that the Loriot, to whom the mechanism of this table was due, wasL. D. Loriot, Member of the Academy of Architecture. It was the work ofA. J. Loriot, mecanicien (1716-1782). 2 De Laborde, De lUnion des Arts et de llndustrie, t. i., p. 138. 3 Reg. Bat. 1732 ; Cicerone de Versailles, p. 340; Pig. de la F., t. i., p. 271 ;de Nolhac, Chateau de Versailles sous Louis XV., p. 174, et seq. 4 Courajod, Journal Duvaux, t. i., p. ccxii. 28
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despair. Blondel, in 1754, laments the decadence of the French Jacques-School ; by decadence he meant the small importance of the q^jc1numerous buildings then being raised in France. It even seems, and hishe says, as if the dominant taste of our nation and the object of Succes-our architects looked only to the convenient distribution of the £buildings destined for our dwellings: one might also say that itseems as if these artists devoted all their care, and their study, tothe perfection and beauty of interior decoration, whilst our facades show but a feeble application of the precepts which have beentransmitted to us by the Greeks and Romans. 1 It is, here, worthy of note that those desires, which found ex-pression in the development of the most luxurious ease in all theinternal arrangements of the dwelling-house, coincided with thepseudo-classic revival of taste. The traditions of the Renaissancehad, it is true, engrafted themselves firmly in the French School,and the French archite

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