A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . tables two blackhorses and un carosse dont le fond est de velour cramoisi. Bruandseems to have lived in some state, but in the last few years of his lifegot more and more into debt, borrowing from all sorts of people—architects, contractors, the Controller-General of Artillery, his doctor,the director of posts at Valenciennes, and the Lieutenant Criminal auBailliage de Mantes. The fact was that, during the period of Mansartspredominance, lasting for nearly thirty years, his colleagues had little
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . tables two blackhorses and un carosse dont le fond est de velour cramoisi. Bruandseems to have lived in some state, but in the last few years of his lifegot more and more into debt, borrowing from all sorts of people—architects, contractors, the Controller-General of Artillery, his doctor,the director of posts at Valenciennes, and the Lieutenant Criminal auBailliage de Mantes. The fact was that, during the period of Mansartspredominance, lasting for nearly thirty years, his colleagues had little See Nouvelles Archives de Part Franc, iv, 1883, 190-19S for a complete state-ment of Bruands creditors and affairs. ? Tlie introductory note in the Nouvelles Archives speaks of forty-one creditors,only nineteen are mentioned in the Procfes-Verbal. The sums named amount to 118,081livres, exclusive of the amounts due to certain creditors, such as that of De Lespinearchitecte ordinaire des Batiments du Roi, which are not filled in (NouvellesArchives de Part Franc, 1878, pp. 100-107). Pl. xliv.
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