Pierre-Adrien Pâris

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Pierre-Adrien Pâris (1745 - 1 August 1819)[1] was a French architect, painter and designer.

Biography

Pâris was born at

Louis Marie Augustin, duc d'Aumont,[2] was permitted to follow courses at the French Academy in Rome. He traveled in Italy, including visits to the Roman ruins of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Paestum
, of which he made many drawings and casts. He returned to France in 1774.

In 1775, Trouard entrusted him with the interior decoration of the

Paris Opera
.

Appointed to the

Château de Porrentruy.[4]

Named in 1784 to a post created for him, architect of the

Tuileries, divided into two, facing a podium. He was appointed architect to the Cathedral of Orléans in 1787 and completed its towers, just as the Revolution began, in 1790. His close friendship with the king, and his attachments with the most radical Enlightenment thinkers, caused him a serious moral crisis during the French Revolution, during which he declined any work offered him,[5] and retired near Le Havre, at Colmoulins
.

In 1806 he returned to Italy and the following year, he was acting director of the French Academy in Rome; he directed excavations at the Colosseum. He arranged the purchase for France and transport to Paris of the Borghese collection of antiquities. Following the Bourbon restoration he returned to France in 1817 and realised his plans for a monument to Louis XVI on the Place de la Concorde, which is the elliptical device with a declaration of the "Droits du Homme", which he had invented for the National Assembly at the Menus Plaisirs, and that Chateaubriand had incorporated without citing the author.

Pâris spent the last two years of his life preparing a catalogue of his collection of paintings and antiquities, which he bequeathed to the city of Besançon, together with his library, catalogued by his friend Charles Weiss.[6]

References

  1. ^ Date given in Russell Sturgis, Sturgis' Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building , s.v. "Paris, Pierre Adrien".
  2. ^ Nicole Wild, "La bibliothèque de Pierre-Adrien Pâris", in Jean Mongrédien, Jean Gribenski, Marie-Claire Le Moigne-Mussat, Herbert Schneider, eds., D'un opéra à l'autre 1996:185.
  3. ^ Henry Haynie, Paris past and Present, vol. 2 (1902:245).
  4. ^ Ronald D. Rarick, The Hôtel and Château designs of Pierre-Adrien Pâris (1745 - 1819), 1987.
  5. ^ The epitaph< he wrote for himself reads "Subject and faithful servant, at the death of his august master, he left Paris forever, and forbade himself forever the exercise of the talents which he had entrusted him"
  6. ^ Wild 1996:186.
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