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by "laying low all the woods that were there". The view of the river was the main thing, and Mlle de
Montpensier calculated it to advantage: "As I had my house built in order to go there in summer, I took measures in order that one might see the river in the time of year when it is at its lowest;
228:. Works continued in a series of campaigns as late as 1777, though Louis XV lost interest in Choisy after Pompadour's death, but there is precious little documentation of the interiors, save a section by Gabriel, dated 1754, of the circular Salon and Vestibule in the
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which are coming along very well" she remarked in 1680, but the reader scrutinizing the plan will notice that few of the allées begin or end at a place of great consequence, one sure mark of a strong-minded and enthusiastic
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punctuated by statuary, the hunting was good in the neighboring forest of Sénart, the king's original motivation for purchasing Choisy. The king enlarged the château from 1740 onwards, under the direction of
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357:), its terrains divided into individual lots and sold. The buildings fell into disrepair and were demolished bit by bit during the nineteenth century. Today all that remains are a dry ditch and
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Four grand marble vases designed by
Gabriel and ordered in 1742 were ready to be sent to Choisy in 1753, but the order never came. (John Goldsmith Phillips, "The Choisy-Ménars Vases"
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was less than lucky, however, with his marble bust of Louis XV as Apollo, dated 1749, which Adam had shown at the Salon of 1745 and which, on his own initiative, he placed in the
198:. He was able to use Choisy by 1741. The central block was doubled in depth in the modern way; a theatre was added and the stables were greatly enlarged; Mlle de Montpesier's
105:. He was called in before the few existing buildings were swept away and found the site too closed in by dense woodlands: "There one only saw the riverbank as if through a
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for the bust; the king's reaction in
September 1762 was that he did not want to see it at Choisy on his next visit and that Adam should pack it up and remove it.
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reported: 'the overdoor is an unbroken oval crowned with shellwork and scrolls, but draped...with the newly fashionable garland of husks" (Kimball p 207).
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fashion" Mlle
Montpensier noted, "without any ornament or 'architecture'" an assertion that overlooked sculptural enrichments in the pediment, by
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322:, it was briefly suggested that Choisy be part of the exchange. Louis XV installed at Choisy the portrait he commissioned from
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The furnishings of Choisy were intentionally kept simple. The King's writing table for his use at Choisy, delivered by royal
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in 1744 though it bears gilt-bronze mounts, is no grander than the writing tables of many a contemporaneous aristocrat.
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she had planted were already "coming along very well" by the time she wrote the memoire under the year 1680.
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to take for his model the theatre at Choisy built by
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