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    Richard Mique (French pronunciation: [ʁiʃaːʁ mik]) (18 September 1728 – 8 July 1794) was a neoclassical French architect born in Lorraine. He is most...
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    Another period landmark was the belvedere of the Petit Trianon, built by Richard Mique. The most characteristic building of the late Louis XVI residential...
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    queen and her closest friends and as a place of leisure. Designed by Richard Mique, the queen's favoured architect, with the help of the painter Hubert...
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    set to transforming Saint-Cloud in 1787-88 by her preferred architect Richard Mique, who enlarged the corps de logis and the adjacent half of the right...
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    amateur plays and musicals in the Théâtre de la Reine built for her by Richard Mique. Repayment of the French debt remained a difficult problem, further...
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    appartement du roi and the petit appartement de la reine, redecorated by Richard Mique for Marie Antoinette, are among the finest examples of the Louis XVI...
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    Trianon, France, by Richard Mique, c.1780 Louis XVI style pediment of the Belvédère, part of the Petit Trianon, by Richard Mique, completed in 1781 Neoclassical...
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    Versailles between 1783 and 1785. It was designed by the royal architect Richard Mique with the help of the romantic painter Hubert Robert. It consisted of...
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    (1777) ]] (1751-1810) Belvedere of the Petit Trianon at Versailles by Richard Mique (1789) Transept of Notre-Dame de Guebwiller (1762–1785) The Panthéon...
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    staircase of Louis XV was removed, allowing a library to be constructed by Richard Mique. The mezzanine, which is above the Queen's apartment, was reserved for...
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    18th century and is sometimes attributed without proof to Ledoux or to Richard Mique; The other, of the Doric order, was built by the architect Henri Goury...
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    (Verlet 1985, p. 585). Marie Antoinette ordered her favorite architect, Richard Mique to cover the walls of the petit appartement de la reine with white satin...
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    residences, and the Queen's Theatre and Queen's Hamlet, built by architect Richard Mique in 1780 and from 1783 to 1785 respectively. These were both built at...
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    Queen Marie Antoinette between 1783 and 1785 by the royal architect Richard Mique with the help of the romantic painter Hubert Robert. It consisted of...
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    Petit Trianon, or Pavillon du Rocher, is a neoclassical garden built by Richard Mique between 1778 and 1781 for the French queen Marie-Antoinette within the...
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    Theater) is a theater built for Queen Marie-Antoinette by the architect Richard Mique from June 1778 to July 1779. It is located in the grounds of the Petit...
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  • plans du Petit Trianon de Richard Mique. Colloque de Versailles. Carrott, Richard G. (January 1988). "The Hameau de Trianon: Mique, Rousseau and Marie-Antoinette"...
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    invoked in connection with Marie Antoinette's 'premier architecte' Richard Mique through several phases of the creation of an informal landscape garden...
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    of terror between 14 June and 27 July 1794, including the following: Richard Mique (1728–1794), architect of the Hameau de la reine at the Palace of Versailles...
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    interest in the great Lorraine architects of the 18th century such as Richard Mique and Emmanuel Héré. He notably published a book on the works of Germain...
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    of the founder, the two factories were split between the family and Richard Mique bought in 1763 the Saint-Clément part. In 1786 Sébastien Keller bought...
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    convent. In 1779 she organized the rebuilding of the ruined church which Richard Mique oversaw. After her renunciation, Louise came to be in a far more influential...
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    private performances in which she joined, she instructed the architect Richard Mique to take for his model the theatre at Choisy built by Gabriel for Mme...
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  • Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735) 1794 – Richard Mique, French architect (b. 1728) 1820 – Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary...
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    rivers were formed as part of the new landscaping and the architect Richard Mique was entrusted with designing follies to embellish the gardens like the...
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    convent which was built from 1767 to 1772 according to the designs of Richard Mique. The château was demolished in 1769. Some of its dressed stone was employed...
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    Leczinska, who had died in 1768. In 1779, she commissioned the architect Richard Mique to completely redo the Cabinet of the Queen. He covered the walls with...
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    Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806), elected second-class member 1773 Richard Mique (1728–1794), elected member 1775, director 1783 From 1911 to 1929, the...
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    designed by Richard Mique, Antoine Richard, and painter Hubert Robert. Richard was responsible for the choice of trees and plants, and Mique and Robert...
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    VI would not accede to the proposal. In France, the temple inspired Richard Mique's "Temple of Love" in his jardin anglo-chinois at the Petit Trianon and...
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