Angiviller, Charles Claude de La Billarderie, comte d', 1730-1809
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Name (Latin)
Angiviller, Charles Claude de La Billarderie, comte d', 1730-1809
Other forms of name
La Billarderie, Charles Claude de, comte d'Angiviller, 1730-1809
Billarderie, Charles Claude de La, comte d'Angiviller, 1730-1809
De La Billarderie, Charles Claude, comte d'Angiviller, 1730-1809
Billarderie d'Angiviller, comte de La, 1730-1809
Angiviller, comte d', 1730-1809
Flahaut, Charles Claude, comte de La Billarderie d'Angiviller, 1730-1809
Date of birth
1730-01-24
Date of death
1809-12-11
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- Duplessis, J.-S. Lettre a M. Barrere de Vieusac, depute a l'Assemblee nationale, 1791:p. 2 (le comte d'Angiviller)
- Grand dict. encycl. Larousse, 1982-1985:v. 1, p. 474 (Angiviller, Charles Claude de La Billarderie, comte d'; directeur des batiments et jardins de Louis XVI; membre de l'Academie des sciences et de l'Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture)
- RLIN data base, 12/4/91(hdg.: Angiviller, Charles Claude de La Billarderie, comte d', 1730-1809; usage: le comte d'Angiviller; le comte de La Billarderie d'Angiviller; Charles Claude Flahaut, comte de La Billarderie d'Angiviller)
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Wikipedia description:
Charles Claude Flahaut, Count of Angiviller (1730–1809) was the director of the Bâtiments du Roi, a forerunner of a minister of fine arts in charge of the royal building works, under Louis XVI of France, from 1775. Through Flahaut, virtually all official artistic patronage flowed. His portrait by Joseph Duplessis, 1779, is conserved in the Louvre. In 1784, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. After the French Revolution he was accused of mishandling public property and emigrated, settling in Hamburg, where he died in 1809.
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