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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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ribuer les medaillesde ses marmousets deleves.6 The difficulties here indicatedbecame so serious later on, that, from 1767 to 1772, Marigny—not content with depriving the prix darchitecture of the pension de Rome —took vengeance on the Academy by a dis-graceful abuse of authority, sending during the whole of thattime his valets de chambre to Rome in the places of the suc-cessful candidates.7 It has been inferred that Blondel was an architecte du roibecause he made application to Marigny in 1765 for permissionto go to Strasburg, offering that Le Roy should take his place as 1 Cours dArch., etc., t. vi., p. 512. 2 Discours sur la necessite, etc., p. 55. 3 Built by Jean Cailleteau dit 1Assurance laine under the direction of Mansart,1706 (Bauchal). DArg., Env. Paris, p. 203. R. A. Arch., 1699; A. de lA. fr.,t. i., p. 420. 4 Built by Mansart. DArg., Env. Paris, p. 182. 5 Curiositez de Paris, ed. 1742, t. i., p. 168.8 Courajod, LEnseignement, etc., p. 72. 7 A. de lA. fr., t. v., p. 300.
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professor during his absence.1 Any member of the Academy would, Thehowever, have had to ask permission, when taking employment ^jfe™7which prevented attendance at the sittings of that body. When KingsLe Rov, two vears earlier, applied for leave on some mysterious Archi-errand, Mangny notes Luy expedier permission de s absenterpendant trois mois. Comme il ne sabsente pas pour le service duRoy dans la partie de larchitecture, il nest pas juste quil jouissede ses droits de presence a lAcademie. 2 The fact that Blondelhad lodgings in the Louvre is more to the point (1765), and thesame is the case with his successor, Le Roy,3 who, like himself,was a great professor rather than a great architect. A less strikingpersonality than Blondel, whose breadth of view he never attained,Le Roy found the exact imitation of classic models easier than theappropriation of their spirit. Le Sieur Le Roy, architects, vientde mapprendre seulement le projet quil a depuis quelque temps defaire un voyage en Gr

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