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Excerpt from A History of French Architecture From the Death of Mazarin Till the Death of Louis XV, 1661-1774, Vol. 2
The greatest architect of the eighteenth century - Academician and premier architecte du Roi - Work at Bordeaux, Orléans, Ver sailles and the Royal Palaces - The competition of 1748 for the Place Louis XV - Work entrusted to Gabriel - His designs - The Ecole Royale Militaire, reduced from original design - Gabriel's instinct for proportion and sense of selection - His quarrels with the Directors General of Buildings - The Salle d'opéra, Versailles, and the Grand Projet - Gabriel's additions - The Petit Trianon, 1763, the finest expression of French architecture - Gabriel and the Academy and Marigny - The last of the Old Guard.
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