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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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quired flattered the vanityof private individuals—made the most wealthy eager to find onthem a site for their hotels. On the Place Louis le Grand, or deVendome, the millionaire Crozat commissioned Francois Blondelspupil, Pierre Bullet, to build him two ; in one of which he livedhimself, whilst letting the other to the Portuguese ambassador,da Cunha.1 Les maisons de cette place, says the author of LesCuriositez de Paris, sont en partie occupees par des financiers,qui ont fait des fortunes etonnantes pendant les dernieres guerres. Turning over the pages of Pattes Monuments eriges enFrance a. la gloire de Louis XV., one is amazed by the long listof the completed works, to which he appends no less than eighteen projets de Places which remained unexecuted. First in im-portance, he puts a late work, Jacques-Ange Gabriels Place de 1 Blondel, Arch, fr. It is worth notice that Blondel gives plans of Crozatsown hotel, 16, Place Vendome, avec les changements qui ont ete faits en Iannee1724. 12
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Louis XV. (Place de la Concorde). Then follow the plans of The Places similarly named, which were begun at Lyons and Mont- ^Cuse*1 pellier, and constructed at Bordeaux, Valenciennes, Reims, Nancy, and the and Rouen. At Nancy, King Stanislas entirely changed the char- Great • • i rr Places acler of the town, with an energy which had he lived fifty years earlier would probably have been exhausted in building for his ownpleasure. Even the magnificent palace, which his predecessor, theDuke Leopold, had begun on the designs of Boffrand, and the firststorey of which was already above ground, was ruthlessly clearedaway, that lodgings for the principal officers of the garrison mightbe erected by Emmanuel Here, on its site.1 He will, says a con-temporary writer, join the angles of the Place de la Carriere,on which it stands, by several columns arranged in half circles,2 theprincipal part—before which will be a fountain—will look on theback of the Porte Royale. . . . On one side there i

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