Le Butard et la Muette : deux pavillons de chasse d’Ange-Jacques Gabriel pour Louis XV

Only a few of the many hunting lodges built for Louis XV and Louis XVI in the forests of the Crown now survive. Among them, Le Butard in La Celle Saint-Cloud and La Muette in the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye stand out for the close ties between architecture and topography. Here, First Architect t...

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Main Author: Marie-Marguerite Roy
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Language:fra
Published: École du Louvre 2015-04-01
Series:Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cel/313
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description Only a few of the many hunting lodges built for Louis XV and Louis XVI in the forests of the Crown now survive. Among them, Le Butard in La Celle Saint-Cloud and La Muette in the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye stand out for the close ties between architecture and topography. Here, First Architect to the King Ange-Jacques Gabriel shows, from 1750, the first manifestations of his style, the premise of neoclassicism. While the two lodges, during the Ancien Régime, perfectly met the needs related to the practice of hunting, an activity inseparable from the exercise of power, their usefulness was confirmed by the successive regimes of the nineteenth century.
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Le Butard et la Muette : deux pavillons de chasse d’Ange-Jacques Gabriel pour Louis XV
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title Le Butard et la Muette : deux pavillons de chasse d’Ange-Jacques Gabriel pour Louis XV
title_full Le Butard et la Muette : deux pavillons de chasse d’Ange-Jacques Gabriel pour Louis XV
title_fullStr Le Butard et la Muette : deux pavillons de chasse d’Ange-Jacques Gabriel pour Louis XV
title_full_unstemmed Le Butard et la Muette : deux pavillons de chasse d’Ange-Jacques Gabriel pour Louis XV
title_short Le Butard et la Muette : deux pavillons de chasse d’Ange-Jacques Gabriel pour Louis XV
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