French printmaker and publisher. He was the son of a Parisian bookseller. He studied engraving and started trading prints in 1671. He became a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1691. He was the author of the book “French Military Art for Infantry,” published in 1696.
Cluny Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Sa�ne-et-Loire, France. It was built in the Romanesque style, with three churches built in succession from the 4th to the early 12th centuries. The earliest basilica was the world’s largest church until the St. Peter’s Basilica construction began in Rome. In 1790 during the French Revolution, the abbey was sacked and mostly destroyed, with only a small part of the Abbey surviving.
