Open AccessL’Académie des sciences et des beaux arts des Etats-Unis de l’Amérique
Author(s) -
Reed Benhamou
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
le monde français du dix-huitième siècle
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-722X
DOI - 10.5206/mfds-ecfw.v5i1.9447
Subject(s) - sculpture , painting , the arts , art , humanities , art history , political science , sociology , visual arts
This essay describes the decade émigré Alexandre-Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire spent in the New World. He arrived in 1777, hoping for a distinguished military career. He left in 1787, having developed a vision of higher education approved by the French Royal Academies of Sciences and of Painting and Sculpture, and subsequently praised by historians as the precursor of the modern university system.