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Line 1: {{Short description\|French architect}} [[File:Richard mique.jpg\|thumb\|215px\|Richard Mique; portrait by [[Johann Julius Heinsius]]]] '''Richard Mique''' ({{IPA-\|fr\|ʁiʃaːʁ mik}}) (18 September 1728 – 8 July 1794) was a [[Neoclassical architecture\|neoclassical]] French architect born in [[Duchy of Lorraine\|Lorraine]]. He is most remembered for his picturesque hamlet, the ''[[Hameau de la Reine]]'' — not particularly characteristic of his working style — for [[Marie Antoinette]] in the ''[[Petit Trianon]]'' gardens within the estate of [[Palace of Versailles]]. ==Biography== Line 22: * 1767-72 : Buildings for an [[Ursulines\|Ursuline]] convent in the town of [[Versailles (city)\|Versailles]] for [[Maria Leszczyńska]]. The convent now houses the Lycée Hoche. Mique's first two plans were rejected. The third executed design is similar to [[Jacques-Germain Soufflot]]'s Church of Sainte-Geneviève in [[Paris]]. * 1775-84 : All the structures, including the bridge, that form the picturesque hamlet, the ''Hameau de la Reine'' in the garden of the ''Petit Trianon'' at Versailles. Mique carried it out in its naturalistic ''jardin anglo-chinois'' probably laid out in collaboration with the painter Hubert Robert; for inspiration, he was directed to visit the Anglo-Chinese park at [[Ermenonville]] (Higonnet 2002: 29). * 1775-85 : Church of the Carmelites, [[Saint -Denis, ~~Basilica~~Seine-Saint-Denis\|~~Basilica of~~ Saint-Denis]], for the aunt of Louis XVI, [[Princess Louise of France (1737–1787)\|Madame Louise]], who had become a nun in the convent at Saint-Denis. Madame Louise dictated in detail the subjects she wanted for the sculptural decorations. The neoclassical building, with a Corinthian portico adapted from the Roman [[Maison Carrée]] at [[Nîmes]], was consecrated 28 May 1784. 1777 : Turkish boudoir for Marie Antoinette at Chateau de Fontainebleau. 1778-79 : The private theatre of Marie Antoinette at the ''Petit Trianon''.