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    Pierre Contant d'Ivry (11 May 1698 in Ivry-sur-Seine – 1 October 1777 in Paris), was a French architect and designer working in a chaste and sober Rococo...
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    Rue-de-Valois wing) were added for her in the early 1750s by the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry. She died at the age of thirty-two in 1759. She was the mother of...
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    church, designed by Pierre Contant d'Ivry and Guillaume-Martin Couture. The first design for the new church by Pierre Contant d'Ivry proposed a large dome...
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    grandeur and simplicity. The winning proposal, however, was from Pierre Contant d'Ivry. The many famous students educated at the abbey included the noted...
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    in the Encyclopedia of 1762 described the work of the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry as shown in the Palais-Royal in Paris as the juste milieu between...
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    Gabriel borrowed features of the proposals of Germain Boffrand, Pierre Contant d'Ivry and others. The most distinctive feature, the facade of columns...
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    economist and historian. Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste (1765–1824), lexicographer Yannick Bonheur, figure skater Pierre Contant d'Ivry (1698–1777), architect...
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  • Madeleine, Paris laid; the original design, commissioned in 1757 from Pierre Contant d'Ivry, will not be completed. Chapel for Clare Hall in the University...
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  • 1818, Paris) was a French architect to the king, associated with Pierre Contant d'Ivry and Jean-Michel Chevotet. He was also related to Chevotet, nephew...
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    for whom he maintained a lifelong respect. He then trained under Pierre Contant d'Ivry, and also made the acquaintance of Jean-Michel Chevotet. These two...
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