A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . he reputationof an architect is in the great majority of cases a precarious matter,because in the place historians of buildings are so much occupiedwith the owner that they usually omit to mention the architect, and inthe second place, buildings cannot be carted about like pictures andstatuary, and studied in galleries, so that their authors remain unknown Arch. Franc, ii, 152-159. ? Germain Brice, Nouv. Desc, ii, 93. ?? Thus in the Comptes for 31 December 1699, au Sr. Cottart architecte p
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . he reputationof an architect is in the great majority of cases a precarious matter,because in the place historians of buildings are so much occupiedwith the owner that they usually omit to mention the architect, and inthe second place, buildings cannot be carted about like pictures andstatuary, and studied in galleries, so that their authors remain unknown Arch. Franc, ii, 152-159. ? Germain Brice, Nouv. Desc, ii, 93. ?? Thus in the Comptes for 31 December 1699, au Sr. Cottart architecte pargratifications pour 1699, 300 francs. In the Comptes for 1676 there is an entry of payments to Cottart et Jombert(jui ont echaffaud^ le peristille du Louvre pour leur salaires et vacations, but thisprobably refers to builders. Blondel, who had no access to the Comptes, knew nothingof Cottart, but believed him to be a contemporary of Lemercier and Le Pautre. He wasof Le Pautre but not of Lemercier. XXXII Facf uf i<[tUrci duiit AliUJin ra/jur rut ,h Chru aPciru baJtLC par I Huhf-.
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