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    Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (15 August 1717 – 26 December 1806) was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer, author, and designer of one of...
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    Saint-Georges, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and playwright Louis Carrogis Carmontelle. The couple also gave theatrical presentations, some of which were written...
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  • youth, innocence and tenderness. Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach by Louis Carmontelle. Pink was worn regardless of gender. In 19th century England, pink...
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    Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. The back side relief, based on a design by Louis Carmontelle, represents the six-year-old Mozart playing music with his father...
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    D'Holbach by Louis Carmontelle...
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    Rouen, the daughter of Charles François de Saujon, Baron of La Rivère, and Louis-Angélique de Barberin de Reignac. She married Comte Édouard de Boufflers...
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    de Besenval de Brunstatt as courtier around 1780, etching by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle Portrait of a Persian courtier Madame de Pompadour was a French...
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    Louis Petit de Bachaumont (pronounced [lwi p(ə)ti də baʃomɔ̃]) (June 2, 1690 – April 29, 1771) was a French writer, whose historical interest has been...
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    Louis Racine (born 6 November 1692, Paris; died 29 January 1763, Paris) was a French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment. The second son and the seventh...
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    the French Army and was one of the foremost diplomats in the service of Louis XV. He is chiefly remembered in connection with the Secret du Roi. As second...
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    to create a public park, and employed the writer and painter Louis Carrogis Carmontelle to design the gardens. The Duke was a close friend of the Prince...
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  • Portraits de Carmontelle, Plon, Paris, 1902 pages 149-150 Charles Gavard, Galeries historiques du Palais de Versailles, Imprimerie royale, 1842 "Louis de Conflans...
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    Monceau, created by Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, which opened in 1779. it was designed for the Duke by the painter Carmontelle. It contained a miniature...
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    "THEOPH:W:MOZART Compositeur, et Maitre de Musique, agé de 7 ans". In 1766, Carmontelle produced a group portrait of the family performing, engraved at Grimm's...
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    seen by the sketches we have of him, including a famous portrait by Carmontelle. He had a "loud voice". His speech was difficult to understand, just...
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    Camille de Lorraine (Louis Camille; 18 December 1725 – 12 April 1780) was a French nobleman and Prince of Lorraine. He was known as the Prince of Marsan...
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    de Henri IV which was prohibited in public, most of the Proverbes of Carmontelle and similar licentious performances were given to the delight of high...
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    Orléans, the nephew and son-in-law of Louis XIV of France. She was comtesse de Ségur by marriage, and a courtier of Louis XV, her cousin. Born c. 1700–1702...
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    1804) was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent...
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    of Art. pp. 390–. ISBN 978-0-19-860476-1. Bernstein, Margot (2021). "Carmontelle, or The Age of Pleasures by Nicole Garnier-Pelle". Eighteenth-Century...
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    the 13th century. He had no heirs, and in 1232 ceded the property to king Louis IX of France (1214–70), who gave it to his mother Blanche of Castile (1188–1252)...
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    princess by birth and a princess du sang by marriage. By her marriage to Louis François Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, her first cousin, she became...
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  • antiquary, politician and literary patron (born 1719) December 26 – Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, French dramatist (born 1717) Clifford, Brendan (1993). "Introduction"...
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    Louis Guy Henri, Marquis de Valori, (11 November 1692 in Menen – October 1774) was a French diplomat and aristocrat, who served as a general under Louis...
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    Sterne painted in watercolour by French artist Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, c. 1762...
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    together with the high price of the book – according to Diderot up to four Louis per copy – testify to its success with the French public. Nevertheless,...
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    La Condamine and Louise Marguerite Chourses. He studied at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris, where he was trained in humanities as well as in mathematics...
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    However, this painting is only a copy of the original gouache by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle from 1770. The painting shows six "gentlemen"(French: Gentilshommes)...
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    Paris. Known as the Abbé de Chauvelin, he was the youngest son of Germain Louis Chauvelin and thus a brother of marquis François Claude Chauvelin. He ardently...
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  • draughtsman Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809), painter, draughtsman and engraver Carmontelle (1717–1806), painter, draughtsman, engraver Claude-Henri Watelet (1718–1786)...
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