Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie

Charles Claude Flahaut de La Billarderie, comte d' Angiviller (* 1730 in Saint- Remy -en- l'Eau in Beauvaisis, † 1809 in Altona, today Hamburg) was a French military, politicians, and Director of the Royal Building Authority under Louis XVI.

Life

The Comte d' Angivillers was a friend of Louis XVI. and was appointed by this directeur général des Bâtiments 1774, Arts, Jardins et Manufactures de France, the most important for the official art policy position within the royal administration. During his tenure ( until 1790 ) the first ideas for the creation of a national museum were developed in the Louvre after the gallery of the Jardin du Luxembourg was closed again in 1779 after nearly twenty years. To this end, strengthened d' Angivillers the royal collections including through a dedicated acquisition policy, which still under Louis XV. had subsided, and promoted particularly in the French history painting. He left France in 1790 and spent his life in a monastery in Altona.