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Richard Mique (18 September 1728 — 8 July 1794) was a neoclassical French architect born in Lorraine. Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated Year 1728 ( MDCCXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Year 1794 ( MDCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century both as a reaction against the Rococo Lorraine (Lorraine Lothringen is a historical area in present-day northeast France. He is most remembered for his picturesque hamlet, Le Petit Hameau, for Marie Antoinette at Versailles, which, however, is not particularly characteristic of his working style. Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 2 1755 &ndash October 16 1793 known to history as Marie Antoinette ( pronounced /maʀi ɑ̃ntwanɛt/ Versailles (vɛʀsaj in French) formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important

He was born at Nancy, the son of Simon Mique, an architect and entrepreneur of Lunéville and grandson of Pierre Mique also an architect. Nancy (nɑ̃si archaic Nanzig Nanzeg is a city and commune in the Lorraine région of northeastern France Lunéville is a commune in the French région of Lorraine. It is a Sous-préfecture of the Meurthe-et-Moselle Following their example,[1] he became an architect in the service of duke Stanislas Leszczynski, ex-king of Poland and father of Maria Leszczyńska, the consort of King Louis XV of France; following the death of Héré de Corny, Mique participated as premier architecte in Stanislas' grand plans for reordering and embellishing Nancy, his capital as Duke of Lorraine. Stanisław I Leszczyński (October 20 1677 – February 23 1766 was King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Duke This is the correct spelling in modern Polish various other spellings are also used in English and French Louis XV (15 February 1710 &ndash 10 May 1774 ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774 Emmanuel Héré de Corny ( Nancy, 12 October 1705 — Lunéville, 2 February 1763, Lunéville court architect to Stanislas made him a chevalier of the Order of Saint-Michel and maneuvered unsuccessfully to have Mique placed on the payroll of the Bâtiments du Roi. The Bâtiments du Roi (Buildings of the King was a division of Department of the household of the Kings of France (the " Maison du Roi " in [2] Following his patron's death in February 1766, Mique was called to France the following October, at the suggestion of Maria Leszczyńska 's Polish confessor. This is the correct spelling in modern Polish various other spellings are also used in English and French His official career in France was initially stymied by the influence of Ange-Jacques Gabriel, premier architecte. Ange-Jacques Gabriel ( October 23, 1698 &ndash January 4, 1782) was the most prominent French Architect of his generation His main clients were a series of royal ladies. For Maria Leszczyńska, he built a convent, prominently sited in the town of Versailles, on lands formerly at the edge of the park belonging to Madame de Montespan's Château de Clagny, of which eleven hectares were consigned to the queen by her husband, Louis XV. This is the correct spelling in modern Polish various other spellings are also used in English and French Versailles (vɛʀsaj in French) formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart marquise de Montespan ( October 5, 1641 &ndash May 27, 1707) better known as The Château de Clagny was a French country house that stood northeast of the Château de Versailles; it was designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for Madame Louis XV (15 February 1710 &ndash 10 May 1774 ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774 At the queen's death, her daughter Madame Adélaïde completed the project. Marie Adélaïde de France ( 23 March 1732 - 27 February 1800) was a French Princess.

Mique must have gained the confidence of the dauphin and the dauphine, for upon the accession of the dauphin as Louis XVI in 1774, Migue was appointed intendant et contrôleur général des bâtiments du Roi; he succeeded Gabriel as premier architecte to Louis XVI the following year, thus overseeing the last works carried out at Versailles before the French Revolution. Louis XVI ( 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis-Auguste de France, ruled as King of France and Navarre The Bâtiments du Roi (Buildings of the King was a division of Department of the household of the Kings of France (the " Maison du Roi " in Louis XVI ( 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis-Auguste de France, ruled as King of France and Navarre The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an He purchased a seigneurie in Lorraine, which completed his transformation to courtier-architect. This article is about the medieval system "Manors" redirects here

He laid out the queen's garden at the Petit Trianon from 1774 to 1785 in collaboration, it is often said (though without documentary evidence) with the painter Hubert Robert. The Petit Trianon is a small Château located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. Hubert Robert ( 22 May 1733 - April 15, 1808) French Artist, was born in Paris. The design — "one of the first instances. . . of pre-Victorian kitsch" (Higonnet 2002) — was based on sketches by the Comte de Caraman, an inspired amateur of gardening. Kitsch /kɪtʃ/ is a term of German or Yiddish origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior tasteless copy of an existing Mique was also responsible for the Petit Hameau, a mock farming village situated around an artificial lake, and located at the northeastern corner of the estate. [3]

Detail of Cupola, Temple of Love
Detail of Cupola, Temple of Love

During the Revolution, he was arrested along with his son as participants in a conspiracy to save the life of Marie Antoinette, whose favorite architect he had been. Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 2 1755 &ndash October 16 1793 known to history as Marie Antoinette ( pronounced /maʀi ɑ̃ntwanɛt/ He was brought before a revolutionary tribunal, and after a summary trial on 7 July 1794 both father and son were condemned to death and executed. This was just weeks before the fall of Robespierre and the end of the Reign of Terror. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (maksimiljɛ̃ fʁɑ̃swa maʁi izidɔʁ də ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ ( 6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) Saint justjpg|thumbnail|200px| Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just]] The Reign of Terror' (5 September 1793 &ndash 28 July 1794 or simply The Terror (la Terreur was

Pierre de Nolhac, the historian of the Château de Versailles, in Le Trianon de Marie-Antoinette (1914), found Mique to have been "un artiste savant, habile, et digne de plus de gloire"[4] A street in the city of Versailles commemorates his name. The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal Château in Versailles, in France 's Île-de-France region

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  1. ^ He may have followed the courses of Jacques-François Blondel in Parid. Jacques-François Blondel ( Rouen, January 17, 1705 — January 9 1774) was a French architect
  2. ^ Twice politely refused by the Marquis de Marigny (Higonnet 2002: 26)
  3. ^ The garden setting of the hameau is discussed in Pierre-André Lablaude's book, The Gardens of Versailles (1995), a survey prompted by the replanting needed after the diastrous storm of 3 February 1990
  4. ^ "A learned and skilled artist, worthy of more fame" (quoted in Higonnet 2002). Abel-François Poisson de Vandières marquis de Marigny and marquis de Menars, often referred to simply as the Marquis de Marigny (1727 Paris
  5. ^ A version of the circular Temple of Vesta, Tivoli. The circular so-called "Temple of Vesta" at Tivoli, of the early first century BCE has been widely admired since the Renaissance.
  6. ^ It was built to house Edmé Bouchardon's Love fashioning a bow from the club of Hercules, now at the Musée du Louvre. Edmé Bouchardon ( 29 May 1698 - 27 July 1762) was a French sculptor, esteemed in his day as the greatest sculptor of his The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre located in Paris is the world's most visited art museum a historic monument and a national museum of France

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