CAYLUS,

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CAYLUS, ,ANNE CLAUDE PHILIPPE DE TUBIERES DE

GRIMOARD

GRIMOARD, PHILIPPE HENRI, COMTE DE (1753-1815)

DE PESTELS DE LEVIS, COMTE DE, ,Marquis d'Esternay,,baron de Bransac (16921765), French archaeologist and man of letters, was born at Paris on the 31st of October 1692. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Count de Caylus. His mother, Marthe Marguerite le Valois de Vilette de Murray, comtesse de Caylus (16731729), was a

cousin

of Mme de Maintenon, who brought her up like her own daughter. She wrote valuable memoirs of the court of Louis XIV. entitled Souvenirs; these were edited by Voltaire (1770), and by many later editors, notably Renouard (18o6), Ch. Asselineau (186o), M. de Lescure (1874), M. E. Raunie (1881), J. Soury (1883). While a

young

man Caylus distinguished himself in the campaigns of the French army, from 1709 to 1714. After the peace of Rastadt he spent some time in travelling in Italy,

Greece

GREECE

, the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

, England and Germany, and devoted much attention to the study and collection of antiquities. He became an active member of the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of Painting and Sculpture and of the

Academy

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ACADEMY, ROYAL

Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

. Among his antiquarian works are Recueil d'antiquites egyptiennes, etrusques, grecques, romaines, et gauloises (6 vols., Paris, 1752-1755), Numismata Aurea Imperatorum Romanorum, and a Memoire (1755) on the method of en-caustic painting with wax mentioned by Pliny, which he claimed to have rediscovered. Diderot, who was no friend to Caylus, maintained that the proper method had been found by J. J. Bachelier. Caylus was an admirable engraver, and copied many of the paintings of the

great

GREAT

masters. He caused engravings to be made, at his own expense, of Bartoli's copies from ancient pictures and published Nouveaux sujets de peinlure et de sculpture (1755) and Tableaux tires de l'Iliade, de l'Odysse, et de l'Eneide (1757). He encouraged artists whose reputations were still in the making,but his patronage was somewhat capricious. Diderot expressed this fact in an epigram in his Salon of 1765 "La wort nous a delivres du plus cruel des amateurs." Caylus had quite another side to his character. He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life, and left a number of more or less witty stories dealing with it. These were collected (Amsterdam, 1787)as his CEuvres badines completes. The best of them is the Histoire de M. Guillaume, cachet- (c. 1730).
The Souvenirs du comte de Caylus, published in 1805, is of very doubtful authenticity. See also A. and J. de Goncourt, Portraits intimes du XVIIIz siecle; Ch. Nisard's edition of the Correspondance du comte de Caylus avec le Pere Paciaudi (1877); and a notice by O. Uzanne prefixed to a volume of his Faceties (1879).

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