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    1746, Minister of the Navy Maurepas awarded such a sword to privateer Pierre Anguier for his intervention in the Jacobite rising of 1745. Established on...
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    Louis XIV commanded architect François Blondel and the sculptor Michel Anguier to build him a monumental archway that would honor the capture of Franche-Comté...
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    The funerary monument, by Michel Anguier...
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    Chancellor of Louis XIV, Pierre Séguier, a serious patron of the arts, who arranged for him to work in the studio of François Anguier, and later, from 1648...
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  • de la Chambre, physician and philosopher (b. 1594) Pierre Affre, sculptor (b. 1509) François Anguier, sculptor (born c.1604) Portals: France History Lists...
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    monument of Henri and Alphonse de Lorraine-Harcourt "THe Nativity" by Michel Anguier (17th c., Chapel of the Communion) The church, particularly the chapels...
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    Saisons in the Louvre Palace, by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, Michel Anguier and Pietro Sasso, mid 17th century Neoclassical ceiling of the Salle Duchâtel...
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    Ruprich-Robert. The priest at Saint-Roch declined to return the original Anguier crèche, so a duplicate was created, using three sculptors: Clement Denis...
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    expansion, which he accomplished with the collaboration of the architect Pierre Bullet. On 31 December 1671, the King named Blondel Director and Professor...
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    by King Henry IV in 1606. Cleve studied under French sculptor François Anguier and received the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1671. After spending several...
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