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    François d'Orbay (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa dɔʁbɛ]; 1634–1697) was a French draughtsman and architect who worked closely with Louis Le Vau and Jules...
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    classical. Le Vau was assisted by François d'Orbay, who completed the work after Le Vau's death. Le Vau and d'Orbay's work at Versailles was later modified...
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    When Le Vau died in 1670, the project was given to his assistant François d'Orbay, who completed the initial phase in 1674. The new palace surrounded...
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    architect François d'Orbay. Work at the palace during the 1670s focused on its interiors, as the palace was then nearing completion, though d'Orbay expanded...
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    known as the Carrousel. From 1664 to 1666, Le Vau and his assistant François d'Orbay made other significant changes. They transformed Philibert de l'Orme's...
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    façade of the Louvre (1667–68), by Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, François d'Orbay and Claude Perrault, was in the grand classical style of Louis XIV...
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    1689 to 1770. It was built to the designs of the French architect François d'Orbay on the site of a former indoor tennis court (jeu de paume), located...
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    (1662–1668), facing the Louvre. It was designed by Louis Le Vau and François d'Orbay, and combined the new college donated by Cardinal Mazarin, a chapel...
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    reconstruction totaled about 400,000 livres. Hardouin-Mansart's assistant, François d'Orbay, prepared a general site plan, showing the Palais-Royal before these...
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    Le Vau, with the construction was completed by Le Vau's assistant François d'Orbay. The new structure comprised five wood-framed pavilions decorated with...
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    provided on April 6, 1686. The remainder of the plan was designed by François d'Orbay. The foreground of the plan, however, was quickly changed to take into...
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    of order on the Tuileries Garden. His architects, Louis Le Vau and François d'Orbay, finally finished the Tuileries Palace, making a proper royal residence...
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    des Ambassadeurs of the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, by François d'Orbay and Charles Le Brun, 1674-1679, demolished in 1752 under Louis XV Baroque...
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    to Le Vau's death in 1670, when it was taken over by his draftsman, François d'Orbay. The college opened in 1688. In accordance with Mazarin's will, his...
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  • Porcelaine formed a pendant to the Ménagerie. Designed by Louis Le Vau and François d'Orbay and built between 1669 and 1670 as a pleasure pavilion for Louis XIV...
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    architect Antoine Lepautre, architect François Le Vau, architect Pierre II Mignard, architect François d'Orbay, architect Subsequent edicts of the crown...
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    Laprade (1960, plate 2, chapter VI), who attributes the drawing to François d'Orbay; Tadgell 1980, figure 66; Pérouse de Montclos 1989, fig. 288; Berger...
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    and decorated by the architects Charles Errard, Louis Le Vau, and François d'Orbay, was housed in a pavilion located at the north end of the palace as...
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    reproduced by: Blunt 1953, plate 155a; Laprade 1960, Plate VI 2b (asserts François d'Orbay is the author); Tadgell 1980, fig. 66; Pérouse de Montclos 1989, fig...
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    and the church was consecrated in 1739. Initially, the architect François d'Orbay supervised the works. When he died in 1697, he was succeeded by Jules...
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  • Arts, March 1955, pp. 21–24. ISSN 0482-7872 Laprade, Albert (1960). François d'Orbay: Architecte de Louis XIV. Paris: Éditions Vincent, Fréal. OCLC 562063179...
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  • industriels. impr. de Arrault. Retrieved 2013-07-01. Laprade, Albert (1954). François d'Orbay: 1634-1697. Retrieved 2013-07-01. Laprade, Albert (1957). Les architectes...
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    Paris: J. Picard. OCLC 489711032, 476619163. Laprade, Albert (1960). François d'Orbay: Architecte de Louis XIV. Paris: Éditions Vincent, Fréal. OCLC 562063179...
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    Arts, March 1955, pp. 21–24. ISSN 0482-7872 Laprade, Albert (1960). François d'Orbay: Architecte de Louis XIV. Paris: Éditions Vincent, Fréal. OCLC 562063179...
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    Francisco, 2016. Gothic and Gothic visuality In 2006, Annwn discovered Francois d’Orbay's floor-plans for the site of E-A Robertson's famous Parisian Phantasmagoria...
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    Palais du Luxembourg. Working under the direction of the architect François d'Orbay, he provided bas-reliefs in stucco and carved doors for the church...
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  • architect (born c.1635) 9 December – Scipion Abeille, surgeon and poet François d'Orbay, draughtsman and architect (born 1634) Ange de Saint Joseph, missionary...
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    "Madame de Lorraine" a farewell visit at Commercy, and her letters to François-Antoine Devaux paint a lively picture of life there. When the Dowager Duchess...
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