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Reafons for be- of the time, it certainly ought to be preferred. There is good 



wo^dcfanfwelVor ''^3^"" ^^^o to decide, that this method will do equally well 



the largeft for the largeft works ; for, according to calculation, the largeft 



wwks. fiatue of this kind in France exceeds that of Joan of Arc by 



a much fraaller proportion than the latter exceeds that of the 



largeft ftatues ever before caft in the fame manner, which 



never weighed more than from 8 to 10 kilogrammes (from 



about 17 to 22 lb.) The ftatue of Joan of Arc weighed 60Q 



Jtilogrammes, which is -60 times more; but that of Lewis the 



Fifteenth, which weighed 17,000 kilogrammes, was only 



twenty-eight times heavier than that of Joan of Arc. 



But in order to judge belter of the advantages of M. Gois's 

 method, it fliall be defcribed at large, and an account given 

 alfo of the method of molding by wax, or of the grand foun. 

 dery, in order to compare them together. 

 M. Gois's fta- M. Gois having made a ftatue of Joan of Arc for a prizse, 

 Arc°e7h^b"et exhibited it in public in the year 10. (1802.) The preled of 

 and admired. the department of the Loire faw it, and propofed to the city 

 of Orleans to re-ered that monument to the glory of this he- 

 roine, which had been deftroyed in thfe anarchy of the revo-r 

 lution. It was accordingly ordered to be done. M. Gois 

 being informed of this, went to Orleans and ofTered to make 

 a caft in bronze from his ftatue, without precifely knowing 

 whether it was that which the city required. 

 He is employed An agreement was then made with M. Gois to complete 

 tn make a caft ^j^g ftatue at a fixed price, in the courfe of about one year from 



in bronze fiom . • , ■' 



it for the city of the 5lh Germinal, An XL or before May 4, 180i. 

 Orleans. ^^ Goh began to be alarmed at the enormous expence 



Is induced to of the ulual method of cafling fuch ftatues, and ai the great 

 (iVin fand to ''"^^ ^' required, which he feared would prevent bis per- 

 f2|ve time and forming the agreement. He knew that M. Roufleau had 

 expence. rnade a c^ft from the groupe of Graces by Germain Pilon, 



M. RoufTeau with great fuccefs, by a different method; and though thefe 

 work"for"irn^ figures were but 1,38 metres high, and his ftatue was more 

 wlio had before than two metres, (6| feet) he went notwithftanding to coi>fuIt 

 made a fine caft ^j^j^ fouxidiix, who engaged for the fuccefs of the method, and 



of the Graces } . . ° 



and employs the promifed to employ in the bufiiiefs the fame workman who 

 f?me workman had caft the above groupe without having met with any ac- 

 cident : This laft confideration determined M, Gois to entruft 

 the worJI^ to ihe fouAdtvs in/and^ 



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