A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . •|0 FA<K 1. 137] BULLET 137 chance of showing what they could do, and Daviler was so disgustedthat he left Paris altogether. Bruand seems to have been a capableman of affairs, but his abilities were those of the business man ratherthan those of the artist. Yet even so, he was not sufficiently astute, ormay have been too honest a man to maintain his position in the face ofunscrupulous rivals. He fell out of fashion and seems to have lost hispractice during the last fifteen or twenty years of hi
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . •|0 FA<K 1. 137] BULLET 137 chance of showing what they could do, and Daviler was so disgustedthat he left Paris altogether. Bruand seems to have been a capableman of affairs, but his abilities were those of the business man ratherthan those of the artist. Yet even so, he was not sufficiently astute, ormay have been too honest a man to maintain his position in the face ofunscrupulous rivals. He fell out of fashion and seems to have lost hispractice during the last fifteen or twenty years of his life, and to havemade his position worse by indulging in unfortunate speculation, aweakness common with French architects in the eighteenth was financial disaster that terminated the architectural career ofMansart, Comte de Sagone, a grandson of the great Jules Hardouin,seventy years later.^ Pierre Bullet was more fortunate. Throug-hout his lone and activecareer, he maintained his place in the front rank of the architects ofhis time, and wrote a book on the practice of architect
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