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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
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ison during the Revolu-tion, Chalgrin had full leisure to mature projects which, on 1 See Plan topographique de Peglise St. Philippe, by Chalgrin. Built by Vignon in 1806. (His name is given variously as Pierre-Alexandre,Barthelemy, Pierre and B. Vignon. See du Seigneur; Bauchal, and catalogues of theSalons of 1793 and 1799.) At the Salon of 1800, Gisors, a pupil of Chalgrin, exhibited Un projet dopdra a ex£cuter sur les constructions de la Magdalaine. He had inthe previous year exhibited Projet de Bibliotheque Nationale dans ledifice com-mence pour la paroisse de la Magdelaine, and found a rival in Thierry, who sentin Monumens a elever en Phonneur de la R6publique franchise, sur lemplacementaffects a la construction de la ci-devant eglise de la Magdelaine. The plans werefinally selected by Napoleon himself. Bauchal, Nouv. Diet. Arch, fr. 3 See Legrand et Landon, t. i., Pt. II., p. 68 ; Quatremere de Quincy, Not.hist., t. i., p. 13. 1 The comte de Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII. 42
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regaining his freedom, he was unfortunately permitted to realize. TheNot contented with making inoffensive changes—such as the r^ssicopening by which he brought the Observatoire into relation with Revival,the gardens and the palace—in his eagerness to make the buildingwhat he considered a worthy residence for the Directoire Executif,he actually broke up the magnificent Rubens Gallery, quonaurait pu replacer sans aucune alteration dans laile correspondante, 1in order to make room for a staircase of his own design. It istrue that, at that date, the great master to whom Watteau, and allthe chief artists of the century had gone for inspiration, was levelledwith them in the dust of common contempt. There is, however, one work in connection with whichChalgrins name must always be honourably remembered. Thechief successes of the school to which he belonged were won, asmight be expected, in works of public utility and in those of puredecoration. In the first class we must reckon the Ecole

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