Resumen de À l'origine de l'architecture de marbre sous Louis XIV: Les projets de Louis Le Vau pour le collège Mazarin, le Louvre et Versailles (1662-1663)
An unpublished memorandum provides new information about the origin of marble architecture under Louis XIV. The memorandum by Louis Le Vau, when compared with several of the architect's drawings and with different contracts passed with the marble merchant Le Grue, means that the origin of the style can be dated with precision to between 1662 and 1663. The writer goes on to discuss the projects undertaken by Le Vau in the Louvre, the Collège Mazarin, and Versailles, evaluating their unequal successes with regard to the interests then implicated in French architecture.
