French school around 1750 Project for an... - Lot 26 - Euvrard & Fabre

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French school around 1750 Project for an... - Lot 26 - Euvrard & Fabre
French school around 1750 Project for an auditorium and exercise room for the Louis le Grand College in Paris Pen and brown ink, brown wash 51 x 53 cm Titled at the bottom Project for a performance and exercise hall for the college of Louis le Grand In 1545, Guillaume du Prat, bishop of Clermont, commissioned Claude de Jay, a close associate of the Jesuits, to found a seminary in Paris in his Hôtel de Paris. This seminary was later transformed into a Jesuit college which took the name of Louis le Grand, then in modern times became the Lycée Louis le Grand. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Collège Louis le Grand trained the elite of society, the princes of the blood and the children of the greatest families of the aristocracy. Among the most famous students were Molière and Voltaire. The Jesuits had developed a pedagogy based on the art of oratory. In this context, many shows, plays or ballet were given each year by the students, in front of a selected public. Louis the Great had three performance halls, as well as chapels. A covered theater for the winter and two ephemeral "rooms" in the summer, in the open air, that is to say the courtyard of Le Mans and possibly another courtyard. Our drawing probably dates from the 1750s. The college reached its peak between the end of the 17th century and 1762, when the Jesuits were expelled.
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