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    1762 Du transport, de la conservation et de la force des bois (in French). Paris: Louis François Delatour. 1767. Traité de l'exploitation des bois, 1764...
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    for planting the great gardens of the French Second Empire; the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, Parc Montsouris, Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, the remaking...
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    L’Art du Menuisier (The Art of the Carpenter) was published between 1769 and 1775 by the Académie des Sciences, with the supplementary work L'Art du layetier...
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    hectares (61 acres), it is the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Parc de la Villette and Tuileries Garden. Opened in...
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    Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France 2004: Climats, cyclothymie des paysages, Centre national d’art et du paysage,...
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    Tivoli, Italy; a similar structure, also built by Davioud, is found in the Bois de Vincennes on Île de Reuilly. This erroneous designation is the result...
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    Lemercier similarly as Lescot's Pavillon du Roi, had barely been started. The unfinished Grande Galerie and the Tour du Bois (end tower of the Wall of Charles...
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    Jardin du Luxembourg (French pronunciation: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]), known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat...
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  • Pierre Francastel. In 1967 he founded the Cercle d’histoire/théorie de l’art that would later become the CEHTA (Centre d'histoire et théorie des arts)...
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    Pierre du Bois de Dunilac (5 May 1943 in Herzogenbuchsee – 23 June 2007 in Pully) was a Swiss historian, whose research primarily addressed issues of...
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