The Architecture of the French Enlightenment
"Allan Braham's book The Architecture of the French  Enlightenment makes  no acknowledgement of the current architectural interest in  Neoclassicism and,  in fact, Braham wants us to see this architecture as the product of a  singular  society. Nonetheless, whether he intended it or not, this  straightforward, well- illustrated book will make life a lot easier for architects who have  been  pursuing French Neoclassicism . . . . [Braham] tells us a lot about the  individual buildings."  --Elizabeth G. Grossman,  Progressive  Architecture"Braham weaves architecture so skillfully into history that the  general  reader familiar with the great buildings of France will find much to  admire in  its illustrated pages."  --John Barkham Reviews"[An] important and pioneering account of French architecture of  the  second half of the eighteenth century."  --Francis Haskell, New York  Review of  Books"[There has been a] need for a book on the architecture of the  period in  which . . . [Ledoux and Boulle] would be brought into clearer relation  with  their contemporaries. . . . This is exactly what Allan Braham has done."   --Anthony Blunt, Times Literary Supplement