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    Claude Perrault (French pronunciation: [klod pɛʁo]; 25 September 1613 – 9 October 1688) was a French physician and amateur architect, best known for his...
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    Charles Perrault (/pɛˈroʊ/ peh-ROH, US also /pəˈroʊ/ pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the...
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    the Petit Conseil, consisting of Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault. Louis Le Vau's brother, François Le Vau, also contributed. Cast in...
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    basis. Eventually a committee comprising Le Vau, Charles Le Brun and Claude Perrault produced a symmetrical and classical design featuring a giant Corinthian...
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    as well as between them. The os clitoridis was described in 1666 by Claude Perrault in otters and in the lioness. The term os clitoridis was used in 1819...
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    Mansart, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Robert de Cotte, Pierre Le Muet, Claude Perrault, and Louis Le Vau. Major monuments included the Palace of Versailles...
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    designs of Tito Burattini, Samuel Morland and René Grillet). Around 1660 Claude Perrault designed an abaque rhabdologique that is often mistaken for a mechanical...
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    mixing its spiny, deeply cut leaves with the weave of the basket. Claude Perrault incorporated a vignette epitomizing the Callimachus tale in his illustration...
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    Charles Le Brun, after 1661 East front of the Louvre Palace, Paris, by Claude Perrault and Louis Le Vau, 1665–1680 Chapel of the Palace of Versailles, Versailles...
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    Peter (1973). François Mansart. London: A. Zwemmer. ISBN 9780302022511. Perrault, Charles (1696), "François Mansart", Les hommes illustres qui ont paru...
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    speed. It is therefore a curve of pursuit. It was first introduced by Claude Perrault in 1670, and later studied by Isaac Newton (1676) and Christiaan Huygens...
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    includes illustration by Andrea Palladio French Jean Martin, 1547 Claude Perrault, 1673 Auguste Choisy, 1909 English Henry Wotton, 1624 Joseph Gwilt...
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    demoiselle de Numidie" had been used in 1676 by the French naturalist Claude Perrault. The demoiselle crane is now placed in the genus Grus that was introduced...
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  • Fontaine, Lully, Le Brun, Rigaud, Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin Mansart, Claude Perrault and Le Nôtre. Before the Age of Revolution, the English Civil War was...
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    Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1653) October 9 – Claude Perrault, French architect (b. 1613) October 14 – Joachim von Sandrart, German...
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    identical façades. The classical façades were inspired by those created by Claude Perrault, the royal architect, for the façade of the Louvre. They were originally...
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    Ctesibius' water clock, as visualized by the 17th-century French architect Claude Perrault...
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    rationality. Claude Perrault, Marc-Antoine Laugier and Carlo Lodoli were among the first theorists of Neoclassicism, while Étienne-Louis Boullée, Claude Nicolas...
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    Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and the doctor and amateur architect Claude Perrault, signalling the waning influence of Italian artistic hegemony in France...
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    half degrees to the west." The architect of the Paris Observatory was Claude Perrault whose brother, Charles, was secretary to Jean-Baptiste Colbert and...
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  • Charles-Hubert Perrault (1922-2019) Canadian businessman Claude Perrault (1613-1688), French architect and scientist, brother of Charles Dominique Perrault (born...
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    Charles II of England, 1653 Double portrait of François Mansard and Claude Perrault, 17th century, attributed Louis XIII Crowned by Victory, 1635, Louvre...
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    rule on the back. Sometime between 1666 and 1675, French polymath Claude Perrault invented the first slide calculator, called Abaque rhabdologique (a...
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    (1667–68), by Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, François d'Orbay and Claude Perrault, was in the grand classical style of Louis XIV, symbolizing power and...
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    the south wing in the spring of 1668. Claude Perrault's brother Charles Perrault claimed in his memoirs that Claude was the sole author of the colonnade...
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    musician Claude Perrault (1613–1688), French architect Claude Peter (1947–2022), French basketball player Claude Petit, French politician Claude Philippe (1910–1978)...
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  • Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit astronomer in China (born 1623) October 9 – Claude Perrault, French architect and physicist (born 1613) November 11 – Jean-Baptiste...
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    the Chapel of the Holy Shroud and the Palazzo Carignano. In Paris, Claude Perrault, a physician and an anatomist, designed the façade of the Louvre and...
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    Colonnade designed by three Frenchmen: Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault. With the relocation of the court to Versailles, the Louvre was given...
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    rebuilding the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre after it burned in a fire. Claude Perrault and Charles Le Brun were also involved in creating the famous façade...
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