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high altar of the Filles-Dieu, in the flreet St. Denis, was alfo 

 deligned by him. 



Tho' he had finimed his Poem before he had left Italy, and 

 communicated it, as has been already mentioned, to the bed 

 judges of that country ; yet, after his return to France, he 

 continued frill to revife it, with a view to treat more at length 

 of fome things, which did not feem to him fufficiently ex- 

 plained. This employment took up no fmall part of his time, 

 and was the reafon of his not having finiihed Ib many pictures 

 as he might otherwife have done. And tho' he was delirous 

 to fee his work in print, he -thought it improper to publim it 

 without a French tranflation, which he deferred undertaking 

 from time to time, out of diffidence of his own fkill in his 

 native language, which he had in fome meafure loft by his 

 long refidence in Italy. Monf. de Piles was therefore at laft 

 induced, at his defire, and by the merit of the Poem, to tranf- 

 late it into French, his verfion being revifed by Du Frefnoy 

 himfelf ; and the latter had begun a commentary upon it, 

 when he was feized with a palfy, and after languishing four or 

 five months under it, died at the houfe of one of his brothers 

 at Villiers-le-bel, four leagues from Paris, in 1665, at the age 

 of fifty- four, and was interred in the parifh Church there. 

 He had quitted his lodgings at Monf. Potel's upon Mignard's 

 return to Paris in 1658, and the two friends lived together 

 from that time till the death of Du Frefnoy. 



His Poem was not publifhed till three years after his death, 

 when it was printed at Paris in I2tno. with the French ver- 

 iion and remarks of Monf. de Piles, and has been juftly ad- 

 mired for its elegance and perfpicuity. 



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