Charles Étienne Briseux

Charles-Etienne Briseux (c. 1680-1754) was a French architect. He was especially successful as a designer of internal decorations, mantel pieces, mirrors, doors and overdoors, ceilings, consoles, candelabra, wall panellings and other fittings, chiefly in the Louis Quinze mode. He was also an industrious writer on architectural subjects. His principal works are: L'Architecture moderne (2 vols., 1728); L'Art de bdtir les maisons de campagne (2 vols., 1743); Traité du beau essentiel dans les arts appliqué particulièrement à l'architecture (1752); and Traité des proportions harmoniques.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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Name	Briseux, Charles Etienne
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Date of birth	1680
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Date of death	1754
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