Richard Mique

Richard Mique ( born September 18, 1728 in Nancy, † July 7, 1794 in Paris) was a French architect. He was regarded as the last leading architect of the Ancien Régime.

After completing his education in Paris, which he completed under Jacques -François Blondel, he worked for the Polish King Stanislas in Nancy, who raised him to the peerage. After the death of Stanislaus, he returned in 1766 to Paris. 1767-1772 he built the Ursuline Convent in Versailles, now Lycée Hoche, 1775 created Mique the Carmelite church in Saint- Denis.

In the same year he was Ange-Jacques Gabriel's successor as first royal architect Louis XVI. and then managed several minor works in Versailles, such as the establishment of the Petits Apartments in the castle itself, and in the park the construction of the theater at the Petit Trianon, the Cupid temple and the Belvedere.

His most famous work is the Hameau of the Queen, the hamlet of Marie Antoinette in the castle park of Trianon.

Mique the proroyalistischen conspiracy was suspected and died together with his son during the French Revolution to the guillotine, just weeks before the end of the reign of terror.