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  • Morning Chronicle for 18 August 1794, where a "Louvet" appears in proximity to Dumas, Fleuriot-Lescot, and Hanriot as opponents of the Convention.

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  • A supporter of Robespierre, whom he defended on the night of 9 Thermidor, Fleuriot-Lescot was executed along with Robespierre and his followers on 10 Thermidor.

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  • Jean-Baptiste-Edmond Fleuriot-Lescot (ca. 1761-94), whose name is also recorded as Lescot-Fleuriot, became the Jacobin mayor of Paris in May 1794.

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  • The Renaissance of Delorme, Bullant, Lescot, each of whom had a hand in the building of the Tuileries, expressed certain characteristic phases of architectural art in the reigns of Francis I and Henri II.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • Serlio, refusing, or debating the price, was cast aside for the Frenchman, Lescot, whose plan was adopted.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • For fifteen years the work went on, when suddenly it was abandoned as were the plans of Lescot.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • Of course there was the Societe des Concerts, but it was a Paradise, guarded by an angel with a flaming sword, in the form of a porter named Lescot.

    Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

  • Lescot was fond of me and appreciated my keen desire to hear the orchestra.

    Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

  • After 1654 he completed the south and north wings of the Louvre as successor to Lescot and Lemercier, and then built the east wing, thereby concluding the square up to the colonnade on the east side.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Lescot was very dependent upon his friend though the latter named him with Philibert de L'Orme as the most eminent architects of France, and the accounts for the building of the Louvre designate Lescot as the architect and Goujon as the sculptor.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

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