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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SERVAN (or SERVANDO known as SERVANDONI),
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JEAN NICOLAS (1695–1766)
  , French decorator, architect and scene-painter, was born on the and of May 1695 . He was the son of a
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carriage-builder at Lyons . From 1724 to 1742 he was director of decorations at the Paris Opera, at that time situated in a wing of the Palais-Royal . His activity was considerable, whether as a painter or as an inventor of scenic contrivances for fetes at the
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marriage of royal personages . He also designed the decorations for altars, and the
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facade for the church of Saint Sulpice in Paris . He died in Paris on the 19th of
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January 1766 . His writings include Description abregee de l'eglise Saint
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Pierre de Rome (Paris, 1738), and La Relation de la representation de la foret enchantee sur le theatre
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des Tuileries, le 31 mars 1754 .

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