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Hôtel De Chevreuse (rue Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre)
The Hôtel de Chevreuse (later Hôtel d'Épernon, then Hôtel de Longueville) was an aristocratic townhouse (''hôtel particulier''), built in 1622 and located on the west side of the on a site now part of the Cour Napoléon on the west side of the Louvre Palace, Louvre in Paris, France. The ''hôtel'' was destroyed in 1834.Gady 2008, p. 309 "Chevreuse (hôtel de), rue Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre". Ownership history An earlier ''hôtel'' on the site was sold in 1620 for 175,000 ''French livre, livres'' to Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes, who the following year united it with an adjacent house to the west for 8,000 ''écus''. The property then extended to the ramparts (Wall of Charles V), part of which Louis XIII had given to Luynes, reserving four toises for the passage of the . After Luynes died in December 1621, the property passed to his widow, Marie de Rohan. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Marot (architect)
Jean Marot (1619 – 15 December 1679) was a French architect and engraver of architectural views. Little has survived of his own architectural work, but his engravings of the works of others, primarily those published in the volumes referred to as the ''Petit Marot'' (c. 1659) and the ''Grand Marot'' (1686), were highly esteemed by his contemporaries and remain, despite numerous inaccuracies and distortions, among the most important sources concerning architecture in France up to the early part of the reign of Louis XIV.Turpin 1996. Early life and career Born in Paris, he was the son of Girard Marot, a cabinetmaker of Netherlandish origin. Early in his career Jean Marot worked for the print publisher Israël Henriet, for whom he engraved architectural views in collaboration with Israël Silvestre, who may have provided sketches and engraved landscapes, and Stefano della Bella, who engraved figures and other embellishments. Among the architects whose designs Marot engraved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
