tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047382600176843307.post4473382632795004592..comments2023-07-22T13:50:21.860+02:00Comments on NOTED: Ledoux & the All-Seeing EyeAndrew Zega and Bernd H. Damshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17912921769853176053noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047382600176843307.post-24482532846828452102015-08-21T02:11:06.044+02:002015-08-21T02:11:06.044+02:00Dear Andrew, I really enjoyed this piece on Ledoux...Dear Andrew, I really enjoyed this piece on Ledoux and your other article on the barrieres written in 2013, "Aux barricades, comrades!<br />France toys with its next revolution." I have chosen to study the octrois barrieres and their role as an "injust and vexatious" tax under the Ancien Regime. What the daily burden of the indirect tax system meant to the artisans, smugglers, and wine merchants who assailed the barriers in July 1789. I've found many references to the Mur des Fermiers Generaux to being equated to slavery in the cahiers des doleances, but I am wondering if you would be able to tell me where you found the quotes calling the wall, a "monument to enslavement and despotism" and "the bastions of taxation metamorphosed into columned palaces." I know you wrote this quite a long time ago, but any help would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00412891003921746694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047382600176843307.post-52785916840602684202012-03-19T16:41:47.223+01:002012-03-19T16:41:47.223+01:00Great post. My favorite work of Ledoux was his red...Great post. My favorite work of Ledoux was his redecoration of the Café Godeau now in the Musée Carnavalet. He was a architect ahead of his time, and seems to be privy to esoteric information. His occult symbols in his latter architecture is a little too modern for my taste but still great works of architecture.andrew1860https://www.blogger.com/profile/09302166776668727094noreply@blogger.com