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    Claude Perrault (French pronunciation: [klod pɛʁo]; 25 September 1613 – 9 October 1688) was a French physician and amateur architect, best known for his...
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    Charles Perrault (/pɛˈroʊ/ peh-ROH, US also /pəˈroʊ/ pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the...
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    the Petit Conseil, consisting of Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault. Louis Le Vau's brother, François Le Vau, also contributed. Cast in...
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    Mansart, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Robert de Cotte, Pierre Le Muet, Claude Perrault, and Louis Le Vau. Major monuments included the Palace of Versailles...
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    mixing its spiny, deeply cut leaves with the weave of the basket. Claude Perrault incorporated a vignette epitomizing the Callimachus tale in his illustration...
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    as well as between them. The os clitoridis was described in 1666 by Claude Perrault in otters and in the lioness. The term os clitoridis was used in 1819...
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    basis. Eventually a committee comprising Le Vau, Charles Le Brun and Claude Perrault produced a symmetrical and classical design featuring a giant Corinthian...
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    designs of Tito Burattini, Samuel Morland and René Grillet). Around 1660 Claude Perrault designed an abaque rhabdologique that is often mistaken for a mechanical...
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    Charles Le Brun, after 1661 East front of the Louvre Palace, Paris, by Claude Perrault and Louis Le Vau, 1665–1680 Chapel of the Palace of Versailles, Versailles...
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    includes illustration by Andrea Palladio French Jean Martin, 1547 Claude Perrault, 1673 Auguste Choisy, 1909 English Henry Wotton, 1624 Joseph Gwilt...
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