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CHARLES ETIENNE BRISEUA (c. 168o-1754)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 574 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES
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ETIENNE
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BRISEUA (c. 168o-1754)  ,
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French architect . He was especially successful as a designer of
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internal decorations—mantelpieces, mirrors, doors and overdoors, ceilings, consoles, candelabra,
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wall panellings and other fittings, chiefly in the
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Louis Quinze mode . He was also an industrious writer on architectural subjects . His
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principal
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works are: L'Archi• lecture moderne (2 vols., 1728); L'
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Art de baitir
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les maisons de campagne (2 vols., 1743); Trait€ du beau essentiel daps les arts, applique particulierement a l'
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architecture (1752); and Traite
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des proportions harmoniques .

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