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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3

Note 224 — BOOK III

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Pierre François Fontaine (1762-1865), an eminent modern French architect and member of the Academy of Arts, who, together with Percier, quem vide infra, constructed the Expiatory Chapel at the corner of the Rue d'Anjou and the Boulevard Haussmann, mentioned below, and a number of other public works, including the great staircase at the Louvre, the restorations at Versailles, etc.—T

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