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s'appliquerent aux beaux arts', published at the Hague. The second
eniarged edition was published in Amsterdam, in 1712, and is inscribed
'Ce vand Chez 1'Auteur'. It is significant that many of the desi,ns
which were engraved by Marot himself, are inscribed D.Marot 'Architecte
de Guillaume III Roy d'Angleterre', as it was only later in his
career that Marot became responsible for architecture as such. It was
after 1695, that the Trevesaal in the Binnenhof and De Voorst, Lord
Albemarle's country house were actually built to his deaignsI!he
concept of the role of the architect as a desigjer of not only the
shell of the building, but of every detail of the fixtures within
and without, including clocks, tulip vases and even the tiles on the
wall, was new to this country, and was to make an enormous impact
on English decorative art, making itself felt in the work of William
Kent, and ultimately in the work of Robert Adam. (Plate 92)
The first Montagu House was built for Ralph, Lord Montagu by
Robert Hooke in the 1670's. It was planned round a court like a French
hotel, with a gatehouse in the street wall, and opposite this a corps-
de-logis with a square domed centre. ' %alph Montagu had visited France
on more than one occasion by this time,arLd obviously developed a taste
for the French style. Abel Boyer, Ralph Montagu's Huguenot contemporary,
describes the circumstancesin which Montagu lived in the next decade.
'Upon the Lord Russel's being sacrificed to the Resentments of the
Popish Cabal the Lord Montagu thought fit to avoid the Malignity
of those Times and prudently retired to Montpelier in France, where
he continued till the beginning of King James II Reign; but being by
him divested of his Place of Master of the Great Wardrobe, he went
back to Montpelier, where he continued until towards the end of that
unfortunate reign'
Meanwhile Montagu House had been let to the Earl of Devonshire,
and in 1686, was unfortunately burnt down. A law. case ensued, Ralph
Montagu lost, and had to rebuild at his own expense. However, it is
significant that Ralph Montagu was in Montpelier at the time, as the
new design for building Montagu House was given to a 'Mon.sjeur Pouget'
by Colen Campbell in Vitruvius Britannicus, 1715. It has recently been
assumed that tu. c&. t be the sculptor Pierre Puget(1620-169i-) wL3
is known to have been at Marseilles, the nearest large city to