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Houdon, 
Chaudet. 
Third Division, Architecture.—Gon- 
doin, Peyre, Raymond, Dufourny, Chal- 
grin, Heurtier. q 
Fourth Division, Engraving.—Bervic, 
_ Jeuffroy, Duvivier. 
Fifth Division, Musical Composition. 
Moitte, Roland, Dejoux, 
—Méhul, Gossec, Grétry, Monvel, 
Grandmenil; Le Breton, perpetual Secre- 
tary. ; 
The foreign associates of the fourth 
class are, Canova at Rome, Appiani at 
Milan; Raffaelle Morghen, at Florence; 
Sergell, at Stockholm; Ben. West, at 
London; Haydn, at Vienna; Marvuglia, 
| at Palermo; Salieai, at Vienna. 
The correspondents at different places 
are, Lacour, at Bordeaux; Lens, sen. 
Bruxelles; Bardin, Orleans; Prudhon, 
Dijon; Geroust, Lunéville; Boichot, 
Autun; Van-Poucke, Ghent; Chinard, 
Lyon; Blaise, Poissy; Renaud, Mar- 
Seilles; Combes, Bordeaux; Crucy, 
Nantes; Foucherot, Tonnerre; Beck, 
‘Bordeaux; Moreau, Liege; | Caillot, 
S. Germain; Blaze, Cavallon’; Mauduit- 
-  ILarive, at Montlignon; Bonnet-Beauval, 
at Bouriconne les Bains; Carelli, Naples; 
Dagincour, Rome; Reichardt, Berlin; 
Framery, Vaugerard; Suvée, . Rome; 
Sainte-Ourse, at Geneva; Boissien, Ly- 
ons; Porporati, Turin; Réga, Naples; 
Fabre, Florence; Zingarelli, Rome; De 
Rossi, Rome; O Megank, Antwerp ; Ta- 
gliasichi, Genoa; Rosaspina, Bologna; 
‘Lepecheux, Turin; Miot, Naples. 
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Besides this class at the Institution, the 
next principal auxiliaries in the cause of 
" the Fine Arts are the Special Schools of 
the Fine Arts of Painting, Sculpture, and 
Architecture, the late royal, acade- 
mies established at Paris, 1648. 
____ Thelessons are given at the Palace of 
the Pine Arts, formerly the College des 
Quatre Nations. 
mY The principal superintending professors 
__are, Messrs, Vien (painter), senator and 
he member of the Institute ; Panjou, sculp- 
tor, member of the Institute; Gois 
(sculptor). i 
. Professors or Teachers. Lagrenée, 
% junior (painter); Ménageot, (painter); 
Suave (painter), director of the French 
_ school at Rome ; Lecomte (sculptor), ad- 
_ministrator; Vincent(painter), member of 
the Institute; Houdon, sculptor, and 
oh al of the Institute ; Boozot, (sculp- 
__ tor). 
"Assistant Professors —Regnault, (pain- 
-__ ter,) member of the Institute; Dejoux, 
_. Mowrary Mac., No, 176, 
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(sculptor) member of the Institute ; 
Barthellemy, (painter). 
Professor of Perspective—M, De- 
machy, (painter.) 
Professor of Anatomy.—M. Sué (phys 
sician of the hospital of the imperial guard. 
M. Renou (painter), resident’ in- 
spector; and secretary; M. Meriée, 
(painter), assistant secretary of the 
schools of painting and sculpture, M. 
Philipault, inspecting housekeeper , of 
the school of painting and sculpture ; 
M, Mouret, ditto. of the hail of study of 
the antique and anatomy. 
School of Architecture-—M. Dufourny, 
professor, member of the Institute, di- 
recteur, couservateur of the gallery of 
architecture, gives public lessons on the 
history and theory of the art on Satur- 
day in each week, from one till two 
every day at the School of Architecture, 
and receives at his house from ten till 
two, such pupils as wish to consult him; 
and every month he proposes a subject in 
architecture,of which the prize is amedal. 
Stereotomy. and Construction, —= M. 
Rondelet, professor, gives his lessons 
at the late College des Quatre Nations, on 
Wednesdays and Saturdays, every week, 
at six in the evening; his practical and 
theoretical lessons combine all the parts 
of the art of bujlding, such as masonry, 
hewing, carpentry, &c. - M. Colombe 
is at present keeper of the school of ar- 
chitecture, 
Gratuitous School of Drawing.—This 
establishment was founded by M. Bache- . 
lier, member of the late academy of pain- 
ting, is open since 1766, for the admission 
of one thousand five hundred students, 
intended for mechanical professions. They 
are taught, Monday and Friday, every 
week, practical geometry, calculation, 
hewing of stone, perspective,architecture, 
and measuring; on Tuesdays and Fridays, 
human figures and animals; on Wednes- 
days and Saturdays, flowers and orna- 
ments. ‘ ( i 
Too much cannot be said in praise of | 
such a gratuitousschool of drawing. The 
benefits that the inferior branches of 
practical builders would derive from such 
an establishment in this metropolis, must 
come home to the breast of every archi- 
tect, who has had the trouble of explain= 
ing his plans to workmen, and daily wit- 
nessing their‘blunders and musinterpreta- 
tion they give to the best designs, 
The «dministrators of these schools are 
as follows—M. Le Breton, president; 
M. Baulard, member of the legislative 
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