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RM2HH9F04–Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689–1755), baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu ca. 1784 Sèvres Manufactory French One of the most remarkable sculptural projects of the eighteenth century was conceived by Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), comte d’Angiviller, in 1776. D’Angiviller, minister of buildings and the head of the royal manufactories, as well as the head of the academies of art and architecture to King Louis XVI (1754–1793), expressed his desire in a letter dated March 14, 1776, to Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (French, 1714–1789), the first painter to the king, to commission a series of