Introduction
Claude Perrault was born on September 25th 1613 in Paris, France. He was the third son of five. His youngest brother being noted fairy tail author and secretary to France’s minister of finances, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Charles Perrault. The most successful of the brothers who is said to have had a great influence in furthering Claude’s career. Claude was a trained physician. He studied medicine at the Ecole de Medicine of Paris. In 1642 he passed his doctorate and became a member of an exclusive group since only about 100 doctors were licensed in Paris at any given time throughout the seventeenth century. 1 He went on to become a member of the medical faculty at the University of Paris and then in 1666 he was elected to join the Academie des Sciences. He was honored but felt he “lacked the necessary qualifications for being placed among so many
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In the years before the completion of the translation he worked on a couple of architectural projects. In 1667, after famed italian architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini failed to render designs for the eastern facade of the Louvre, that were appealing to Colbert, Claude Perrault was appointed by Colbert, to work alongside the premier architecte, Francois Le Vau,and the premier peintre, Charles Le Brun, to propose new designs for it. Within three month of this, the scheme for a colonnade with coupled columns had been proposed authorized and finalized. 5 Although the design is accredited to Claude Perrault, there is an ongoing debate about designs authorship. A debate that started long ago according to doctoral candidate in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art at MIT and 2005 FAST-IP Excellence Award winner, Lucia