Chapter 1 Portrait of an Institution
1. Watson, "Early Days," 557-61; see also Bénézit, Dictionnaire, "Le Clerc." [BACK]
2. Watson, "Early Days," 566-70; Méjanès, "Le Cabinet du roi et la Collection des planches gravées"; Porcher, "La création du Cabinet des Planches gravées." Le Clerc also worked with Cassini on astronomical drawings in September 1671: Wolf, Observatoire, 168. [BACK]
3. Wolf, Observatoire; Cassini, Anecdotes; Stroup, "Louis XIV" On propaganda during the reign, see Klaits, Printed Propaganda. [BACK]
4. See, for example, the standards of admission to Rohault's learned society: Clair, Rohault, 26-27. [BACK]