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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), 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 . He was the son of a See also:carriage-builder at See also:Lyons . 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 . 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 . He also designed the decorations for altars, and the See also:facade for the See also:church of See also:Saint Sulpice in Paris . He died in Paris on the 19th of See also:January 1766 . His writings include Description abregee de l'eglise Saint See also:Pierre de See also:Rome (Paris, 1738), and La Relation de la See also:representation de la foret enchantee sur le See also:theatre See also:des Tuileries, le 31 See also:mars 1754 .

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