A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . yment for two plates not specified,and this is the only mention of him in the Comptes. The Edict ofNantes was revoked in 1685, and Daniel Marot, who was of thereformed religion, was one of the innumerable artists and craftsmenlost to France through that disastrous act. He fled to Holland, enteredthe service of William of Orange, and in 1688 he accompanied thatPrince to England, and was appointed Architecte du Roi. He sodescribes himself on that wonderful drawing of the Royal State Coachmade at th
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . yment for two plates not specified,and this is the only mention of him in the Comptes. The Edict ofNantes was revoked in 1685, and Daniel Marot, who was of thereformed religion, was one of the innumerable artists and craftsmenlost to France through that disastrous act. He fled to Holland, enteredthe service of William of Orange, and in 1688 he accompanied thatPrince to England, and was appointed Architecte du Roi. He sodescribes himself on that wonderful drawing of the Royal State Coachmade at the Hague in 1698. Of his work in England nothing isknown, except that it is certain that he and not Le Notre designed thegarden at Hampton Court,* but he found employment in Holland in Abecedario, Marot, Archives de Iart Franc, vi, 267. More particularly in certain plates of triumphal arches. See his plates of Besan9on (taken by Louis XIV in 1674), and Dole and Ypres(taken 167S) in the Cabinet du Roi. Destailleur refers to a drawing entitled Parterre dAmton Court invente parD. Marot. Pl. L. £arvtfic*t CVesscm dkm^K-Arc de- Ti-%amphe. de I/nuentzon duJ.^JJaro^
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