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    Ange-Jacques Gabriel (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʒ ʒak ɡabʁijɛl]; 23 October 1698 – 4 January 1782) was the principal architect of King Louis XV of France...
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    Paris, southeast of the Champ de Mars. The building, constructed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, is an active military academy and was classified as a national monument...
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    Jacques Gabriel (1667 – 23 April 1742) was a French architect, the father of the famous Ange-Jacques Gabriel. Jacques Gabriel was a designer, painter...
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    lane that descended down to a marsh beside the Seine. The architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel made a plan for the site and the square was finished by 1772. It...
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    multi-building development designed by the architect Jacques Gabriel and his son Ange-Jacques Gabriel. It is within the historic part of the city that has...
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    had the northern Ministers' Wing rebuilt in Neoclassical style by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, his court architect, as it was in the process of falling down. That...
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    Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1761-1770 Façade of the Petit Trianon, Versailles, France, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1764 Staircase of the Petit Trianon, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel...
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    chief architect of the King was Jacques Gabriel from 1734 until 1742, and then his more famous son, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, until the end of the reign. His...
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    architectural projects were the work of his favorite court architect, Ange-Jacques Gabriel. They included the Ecole Militaire (1751–1770); the Place Louis XV...
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    Design for the Place Louis XV by Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1758) Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux by Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1730–1775) Nancy, Place Stanislas...
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    chief architect of the king was Jacques Gabriel from 1734 until 1742, and then his more famous son, Ange-Jacques Gabriel until the end of the reign. His...
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    pines. Between 1750 and 1754, the King commissioned the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel, who had designed the Place de la Concorde and Petit Trianon to build...
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    from the Palace of Versailles to the southeast. It was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel by order of Louis XV for his long-term mistress, Madame de Pompadour...
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    then expanded and redecorated in the middle of the 18th century by Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Madame du Barry. The estate's most famous building is the Pavillon...
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    Paris, just east of Rue Royale. It was designed by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel and built between 1757 and 1774 on the newly created square first...
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    house of the Palace of Versailles. Designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, it is also known as the Théâtre Gabriel. The interior decoration by Augustin Pajou is...
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    (1677–1706) by Jules Hardouin-Mansart The École Militaire (1751–1780) by Ange-Jacques Gabriel The Arc de Triomphe (1806–1836) by Jean-François Chalgrin Palais...
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    1758, after King Louis XV commissioned the most prolific architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel to build two neoclassical palaces in what would become the Place...
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    French) is a folly built for Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in the French Garden of the Petit Trianon, in the grounds of the...
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    10th–16th century; a Chinese carved red lacquer, late 14th century; and the Neoclassical Petit Trianon in Versailles, France, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1764...
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    architecture of Robert Adam and his French contemporaries such as Ange-Jacques Gabriel, a favorite scheme set a series of windows within shallow blind arches...
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    neoclassicism in France is expressed in the Louis XV style of architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel (Petit Trianon, 1762–1768); the second phase, in the styles called...
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    century statues and monuments. West gateway to the garden, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel The octagonal basin and the Grand Couvert, looking toward the Louvre...
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    architecture: The west facade of the Petit Trianon (Versailles), 1764, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel Historicist architecture (in this case Gothic Revival): Interior...
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    French Pavilion was built for Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in the French Garden of the Petit Trianon, in the grounds of the...
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    a staircase railing in the Petit Trianon, Versailles, France, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1764 Neoclassical acanthuses on a vase, by the Sèvres Porcelain...
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    administration of the botanical gardens. In 1761, Louis XV commissioned Ange-Jacques Gabriel to build the Petit Trianon as a residence that would allow him to...
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    first half of the century were, apart Boffrand, Robert de Cotte and Ange-Jacques Gabriel, who designed public squares such as the place de la Concorde in...
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    Panthéon, Paris, by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, 1758–1790 Petit Trianon, Versailles, France, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1764 Staircase...
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    farming. The construction, in 1765, of the École Militaire designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, was the first step toward the Champ de Mars in its present form...
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