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FRANCOIS DE CUVILLES

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 677 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCOIS DE See also:CUVILLES  (1698-c . 1767); See also:French architect and engraver . He helped to carry the French See also:rococo See also:taste to See also:Germany—he was summoned about i 720 to See also:Cologne by the elector See also:James See also:Clement; in 1738 he became architect to the elector of See also:Bavaria, and afterwards occupied the same position towards the See also:emperor See also:Charles VII . His See also:style, while essentially thin, is often painfully elaborate and bizarre . He designed mirrors and consoles, balustrades for staircases, ceilings and fireplaces, and in See also:furniture, beds and commodes especially . He also laid out parks and gardens . He wrote several See also:treatises on See also:artistic and decorative subjects, which were edited by his son, See also:Francois de See also:Cuvilles the younger, who succeeded his See also:father at the See also:court of See also:Munich .

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