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ANGUIER, FRANCOIS (c. 1604—1669)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 42 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANGUIER, See also:FRANCOIS (c. 1604—1669) , and See also:MICHEL (1612—1686), See also:French sculptors, were two See also:brothers, natives of Eu in See also:Normandy. Their See also:apprenticeship was served in the studio of See also:Simon Guillain. The See also:chief See also:works of Francois are the See also:monument to See also:Cardinal de Berulle, founder of the Carmelite See also:order, i1v the See also:chapel of the See also:oratory at See also:Paris, of which all but the bust has been destroyed, and the See also:mausoleum of See also:Henri II., last duc de See also:Montmorency, at See also:Moulins. To Michel are due the sculptures of the triumphal See also:arch at the See also:Porte St See also:Denis, begun in 1674, to serve as a memorial for the conquests of See also:Louis XIV. A See also:marble See also:group of the Nativity in the See also:church of Val de See also:Grace was reckoned his masterpiece. From 1662 to 1667 he directed the progress of the See also:sculpture and decoration in this church, and it was he who superintended the decoration of the apartments of See also:Anne of See also:Austria in the old Louvre. F. See also:Fouquet also employed him for his See also:chateau in See also:Vaux. See Henri See also:Stein, See also:Les freres Anguier (1889), with See also:catalogue of works, and many references to See also:original See also:sources; Armand See also:Sanson, Deux sculpteurs R'ormands: les freres Angular (1889).

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