porcelain. In 1664, Jean-Baptiste Colbert was entitled surintendant et ordonnateur général des bâtiments, arts, tapisseries et manufactures de France ("superintendent...
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a French administrative office holder: Maître des Comptes at Grenoble, then Surintendant des Bâtiments from 1648 to 1656. He was the son of a very rich...
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the lot according to the plans and models established by the Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi (architect in chief of the royal demesne). The plans provided...
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Antoine de Ratabon (category Heads of the Bâtiments du Roi)
de Peinture et de Sculpture from 1655 to 1670 as well as the Surintendant des Bâtiments (Superintendent of Buildings) from 1656 to 1664. Ratabon was born...
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Menus-Plaisirs du Roi (redirect from Palais des Menus Plaisirs)
Roy was an important court official, quite separate from the Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi, who was an architect or aristocrat in charge of all building...
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On 1 January 1664, Jean-Baptiste Colbert purchased the post of Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi from Antoine de Ratabon and suddenly halted all work on...
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Jules Hardouin-Mansart (category Heads of the Bâtiments du Roi)
He succeeded the royal architect Louis Le Vau and became the surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi (Superintendent of royal buildings). Beginning in 1678...
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Ratabon, who at the time was both Superintendent of Buildings (Surintendant des Bâtiments) and the director of the Académie. His portrait of Ratabon was...
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conserved at the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale. In 1699, when Mansart was made Surintendant des Bâtiments, a position otherwise invariably...
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Controller-General of Finances (redirect from Contrôleur général des finances)
several important posts as administration chief, such as Surintendant des Manufactures et Bâtiments du Roi (Superintendent of the King's Manufacturers and...
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