Pierre Cailleteau says “Lassurance” is a Architecte French born in 1655 and died in 1724.
It should not be confused with his son Jean Cailleteau, also known as “Lassurance”, sometimes called “Lassurance the Young person” to distinguish it from his father.
Biography
It began as fitter and was noticed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart before 1679 on the building site of the Château of Clagny. In 1684, it entered as draftsman the administration of the Bâtiments of the King and one allots to him an important role in the new rise given to the decoration of the royal residences, on the faith of the testimony of Saint-Simon according to which Hardouin-Mansart “was ignorant in its trade, and of Coat, his/her brother-in-law, was it hardly less. They drew very from a draftsman whom they kept closed and away on their premises, which was called Lassurance, without which they could not anything. ”One allots to Lassurance the majority decorative drafts carried out for the Château of Versailles and the Trianon of marble around 1690: apartment of the King in the left wing of Trianon (round living room, living room to tighten the fruit, living room of the vault), apartments of the duchess of Burgundy to the Menagerie, oval living room of the castle, cabinet of the mirrors, small gallery… It makes assemble the skirtings to the cornice, which it decorates with rinceaux, of sheets of acanthus, even of sets of children. It introduces arcades in handle of basket falling down on consoles, decorations of panels of mirrors, the shelves of chimney with height of support (chimneys called “to royal”).
In 1699, Lassurance between with the royal Academy of architecture. It leaves the office of the draftsmen of Versailles for the control of the Hôtel of the Invalids. He works then for important Parisian customers, aristocrats and financial, benefitting from the companies of the president François Duret, president with the Grand the Council and speculator, with whom one finds it often associated.
The Parisian hotels of Lassurance reveal a new direction of comfort: if the apartments of parade continue to develop with solemnity necessary to mark the row of the silent partner well, they comprise from now on releases, anterooms and corridors of service; especially, of the comfortable and independent apartments are created in the stages, for the daily dwelling.
On the other hand, rises in the frontages were criticized. Lassurance holds the orders with the central fore-part, generally placing ionic columns at the ground floor and pilasters attics on the floor. But one disputed the height of this one, often judged too low, and the party to confuse the clotheshanger of the central window with the sculpture of the pediment, not very readable provision. The roofs break and are subdivided to marry the succession of the houses and the sunk panels.
The lecturer Germain Brice criticizes the Rivié hotel thus vigorously: “What completes all to disfigure, it is a large opening in the medium, of manner of crossing, without null proportion its height with its width, which will be lost while finishing in shell in the medium of the pediment, which it estropie very vilainement. The frontage on the court is about ordered same manner; all appears heavy and embarrassed to with it; the large door on the street has two columns on each side to form an order of architecture, as négligemment treated as if it had been the first which had ever appeared in France. ” But another amateur, Edouard Baker, are of a very opposite opinion: “The giant door of the hotel Desmarets, one of the masterpieces of the best pupil of Mansart, Lassurance, is used today as entry in the passing of the Panoramas, opposite the small street of Montmorency. ”
The chief of work of Lassurance was nevertheless the Château of Petit-Bourg, built for the duke of Antin between 1716 and 1722.
Principal achievements
- Hotel of Rothelin-Charolais , 101 Street of Grenelle, 1700 - 1704 (discussed attribution).
- Hotel of Rivié , then Desmarets (1711), then of Montmorency-Luxembourg (almost completely destroyed), between the Street Saint-Marc and the boulevard, 1704.
- Hotel of Auvergne , then of Tencin and Mailly (destroyed), 53 street of the University, 1705.
- Hotel of Longueil , 51 street of the University, for president François Duret who resells it since 1707 in Claude de Longueil, marquis de Maisons, 1706 - 1707.
- Hotel of Neufchâtel , Béthune, Châtillon, Trémoille (destroyed), Street Saint-Dominique (today 213-217 Boulevard Saint-Germain), 1708.
- Transformation of the Castle of Rambouillet (Yvelines) for the count de Toulouse, bastard legitimated Louis XIV, 1706 - 1709.
- Hotel of Noailles , then Bertin, on the site of the old Pussort hotel (remains partly), 211 Rue Saint-Honore, 1715.
- Rebuilding of the Castle of Petit-Bourg to Évry for the duke of Antin, 1716 - 1722. Work is continued by Jacques V Gabriel. The castle is demolished in 1750.
- Hotel of Rohan-Montbazon , 29 Street of the Suburb-Saint-Honore (remains but very denatured) and hotel Marbeuf (destroyed), 31 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, 1719.
- Hotel of Roquelaure , 246 Boulevard Saint-Germain (originally street Saint-Dominique), 1720 - 1722.
- Hotel of Lassay and Palate-Bourbon , 126-128 street of the University, 1722 - 1724.
References
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