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{{Short description|French architect}}
'''Richard Mique''' ([[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]].▼
[[File:Richard mique.jpg|thumb|215px|Richard Mique; portrait by [[Johann Julius Heinsius]]]]
▲'''Richard Mique''' (
==Biography==
Richard Mique was born at [[Nancy, France|Nancy]], the son of Simon Mique, an architect and entrepreneur of [[Lunéville]] and grandson of Pierre Mique also an architect. Following their example,<ref>He may have followed the courses of [[Jacques-François Blondel]] in Paris.
Mique must have gained the confidence of the dauphin and the dauphine for, upon the accession of the dauphin as [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] in 1774, he was appointed ''[[Bâtiments du Roi|intendant et contrôleur général des bâtiments du Roi]]''; he succeeded Gabriel as ''premier architecte'' to [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] the following year, thus overseeing the last works carried out at Versailles before the [[French Revolution]]. He purchased a [[Fiefdom|seigneurie]] in Lorraine, which completed his transformation to courtier-architect.
He laid out the queen's garden at the ''Petit Trianon'' from 1774 to 1785 in collaboration, it is believed (though without documentary evidence) with the painter [[Hubert Robert]]. The design — "one of the first instances... of pre-Victorian [[kitsch]]" (Higonnet 2002) — was based on sketches by the comte de Caraman, an inspired amateur of gardening. Mique was also responsible for the [[Hameau de la
[[Image:Cupola Temple of Love.jpg|thumb|Detail of Cupola, Temple of Love]]▼
During the Revolution, he was arrested along with his son as participants in a conspiracy to save the life of Marie Antoinette, whose favorite architect he had been. He was brought before a revolutionary tribunal and, after a summary trial on 7 July 1794, both father and son were condemned to death and executed the following day. This was just three weeks before the fall of [[Robespierre]] and the end of the [[Reign of Terror]].
Pierre de Nolhac, the historian of the [[Palace of Versailles|Château de Versailles]], in ''Le Trianon de Marie-Antoinette'' (1914), found Mique to have been "un artiste savant, habile, et digne de plus de gloire"<ref>"A learned and skilled artist, worthy of more fame" (quoted in Higonnet 2002).</ref> A street in the city of Versailles commemorates his name.
==Works==
[[File:Temple of Love Versailles in Summer.JPG|thumb|300px|Temple of Love Versailles in Summer]]
▲[[Image:Cupola Temple of Love.jpg|thumb|300px|Detail of Cupola, Temple of Love]]
* 1762 : His first known design, for a [[kiosk]] in the gardens of [[Lunéville]].
* 1763-64 Two gates for the city of Nancy: the ''Porte Sainte-Catherine'' and the ''Porte Stanislas'' already show the neoclassical taste..
* 1765 : Plans for the Sainte-Catherine barracks at [[Nancy, France|Nancy]].
* 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
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* 1778-79 : The private theatre of Marie Antoinette at the ''Petit Trianon''.
* 1778-81 : The octagonal Belvedere (
* 1780 : Hôtel de l'Intendance, Versailles
* 1780s : [[Château de Bellevue]], alterations in the interior (demolished) and alterations to the park, which required 42,000 new trees and a hermitage, for ''Mesdames'', the daughters of Louis XV.
* 1782 : Consolidation of the tower at the Cathedral of Orléans (1782-1787)
* 1785 : Modifications at the [[Château de Saint-Cloud]] for Marie Antoinette (bombed by French artillery on 13 October 1870 and razed in 1891)
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==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://hoche.versailles.free.fr/productions/viscou.htm Couvent de la Reine]
*[http://www.carmel.asso.fr/Chef-de-travaux.html (Le Carmel en France) The Church of the Carmelites]
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