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Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jesuit priest (born 1713)

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Marc-Antoine Laugier

French architectural historian (1713–1769)

Marc-Antoine Laugier was a Jesuit priest until 1755, then a Benedictine monk. Overlooking Claude Perrault and numerous other figures, Summerson notes,Marc Antoine Laugier can perhaps be called the first modern architectural philosopher.
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