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Charles Claude Flahaut, Count of Angiviller
French politician (1730–1809) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Claude Flahaut, Count of Angiviller (1730–1809) was the director of the Bâtiments du Roi, a forerunner of a minister of fine arts in charge of the royal building works, under Louis XVI of France, from 1775. Through Flahaut, virtually all official artistic patronage flowed.
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His portrait by Joseph Duplessis, 1779, is conserved in the Louvre.
In 1784, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.[1]
After the French Revolution he was accused of mishandling public property and emigrated, settling in Hamburg, where he died in 1809.