Richard Mique

Richard Mique was a Architecte French, born with Nancy in 1728 and deceased with Paris in 1794. Born from a second marriage of Simon Mique with Barb Michel , his father was architect-contractor of Lunéville, and his/her large father Pierre Mique also architect, had been one of the manufacturers of the primatiale of Nancy. Richard was, the shortly after his birth, baptized with the parish church of Saint-Sebastien to Nancy.

Biography

While following the traces of his father and his grandfather, he becomes architect in Lorraine with the service of the Duke Stanislas Leszczynski, the father of the queen. He takes part thus in the embellishment of Nancy and Lunéville where he spreads the imitation of the ancient style, influenced as for all the neo-classic architects by work of the Italian Renaissance of Andrea Palladio. The death of the Duke Stanislas Leszczynski stops this career because of the hostility and the jealousy of Angel-Jacques Gabriel, First architect of the King.

It is pointed out near the King by obtaining a ordering of the Queen Marie Leszczynska, the Convent of the Queen with Versailles, thanks to the Polish clan of Versailles friends of fire the Duke of Lorraine. It then succeeded Angel-Jacques Gabriel in the function of First architect of the King Louis XVI and will become thus the principal project superintendent of work of the Château of Versailles at the end of the 18th century. It is stopped with his son, like defendant of conspiracy to save the queen, and is translated in front of the revolutionary tribunal. The two unhappy ones were condemned to died the July 7th 1794 and were carried out the following day by the guillotine of the place of throne-reversed, currently place of the Nation, and were buried with the Cimetière of Picpus.

Its works

All the buildings (bridge included) which form the Hameau of the Queen in the garden of the Trianon to the Château of Versailles.
1765: It establishes the plans of the barracks Holy-Catherine to Nancy.
1766: Buildings of the convent of the chanoinesses-Ursulines of Versailles (1766-1772) ordered by the queen.
1780: The House of the Rock in the view-point of Trianon to the castle of Versailles.
1780: The Temple of the Love in the garden of Trianon to the castle of Versailles.
1780: Hotel of the intendance in Versailles
1782: Consolidation of the tower of the cathedral of Orleans (1782-1787)
1784: Vault of the Carmel of Saint-Denis (today Museum of Art and History)
1785: Marie Antoinette asks for some modifications of the castle of Saint-Cloud who belonged to the duke of Orleans.

One allots also other repairs to him such as: churches of Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleau, as well as the main door of the town of Nancy, the forest school of Metz….

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