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    French Baroque and Classicism era. Sculptors such as Girardon, Coysevox and Coustou acquired reputations as the finest artists in the royal court in 17th-century...
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    Guillaume Coustou the Elder, were placed on the north side, at the entrance of the Champs-Élysées. In 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte began to construct the Rue de...
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    Revolution, two equestrian statues, made in 1745 by Nicolas and Guillaume Coustou, were transferred from the former royal palace at Marly and placed at the...
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    height: 3.15 m, width: 2.91 m, depth: 1.28 m Group sculpture; by Nicolas Coustou; 1701–1712; marble; height: 2.44 m Louis XV as Jupiter; 1731; probably...
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    22 - 5 rue Coustou: beautiful entrance with columns Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rue des Capucins (Lyon). Vanario, Maurice (2002). Rues de Lyon...
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    Tuileries Garden (category Gardens in Paris)
    at the west entrance of the garden. Other statues by Nicolas Coustou and Guillaume Coustou the Elder, Corneille Van Clève, Sébastien Slodtz, Thomas Regnaudin...
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    before the King was forced to return to Paris. The bed of the King is placed beneath a carved relief by Nicolas Coustou entitled France watching over the sleeping...
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    headquarters for grocery retailer Félix Potin, No. 51 rue Réaumur, 1910 apartment building, 2 rue Coustou, Paris, 1926 National Circle of Armies, 8 Place Saint...
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    French Baroque and Classicism era. Sculptors such as Girardon, Coysevox and Coustou acquired a reputation for being the finest artists in the royal court in...
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    Claude-Guy Hallé, Guillaume Coustou, and himself, rotate the post. This oligarchy would persist until the election of Coustou as sole director on 5 February...
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    and 1954 to work at Les Trois Baudets. "So I visited that cabaret on Rue Coustou for two years. Later I was featured at the Olympia, and received a grand...
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  • Louis-Denis Caillouette (category Sculptors from Paris)
    Vassor, Histoire des rues de Paris, Cour des Petites-Écuries, Histoire et Vies du Xe, Paris. Revue de Paris (Paris 1829)-(Paris 1844), Bibliothèque de...
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    Hillairet. Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris. Vol. II. Paris: Editions de Minuit. "Le Louvre et Napoléon III". Paris Autrement. 14 January 2014. Geneviève...
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    learned sculpture first in the studio of his father, and then with Guillaume Coustou. He won the Prix de Rome of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture...
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    Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin was created in Paris and the other three, the statues of Gérard Audran, Guillaume Coustou and Philibert de l'Orme were carved in...
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    Marguerite Lecomte (category Painters from Paris)
    Saint-Honoré cloister in Paris (now Rue Saint-Honoré, near the Palais-Royal). Their son, Louis Victoire, was born 24 December 1739 in Paris, and was baptised...
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    Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, the craftsman Nicolas Pineau, the sculptor Guillaume Coustou the Younger, the painters Brunetti and Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, and...
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    Haute-Garonne, owned the property sometime before its purchase by J.-G. Coustou-Coysevox, who between 1866 and 1869 installed the editorial offices of...
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  • with his father in 1715 at the earliest, before he joined the workshop of Coustou the elder in 1721. Jacques Bouchardon began sculpting with his father only...
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