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See also:SERVAN (or SERVANDO known as SERVANDONI), See also:JEAN See also:NICOLAS (1695–1766)
, See also:French decorator, architect and See also:scene-painter, was See also:born on the and of May 1695
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He was the son of a See also:carriage-builder at See also:Lyons
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From 1724 to 1742 he was director of decorations at the See also:Paris See also:Opera, at that See also:time situated in a wing of the Palais-Royal
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His activity was considerable, whether as a painter or as an inventor of scenic contrivances for fetes at the See also:marriage of royal personages
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He also designed the decorations for altars, and the See also:facade for the See also: |
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