Six months before dying in poverty, the visionary French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), after failing to find a buyer, donated hundreds of his drawings to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. His detailed works describe all sorts of them

Liane Lefaivre   About forty years ago Emil Kaufmann, in his study of late eighteenth-century architecture (Three Revolutionary Architects – 1952 – , Gili, Barcelona, 1980) puts an end to all clichés by presenting Jean Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825?) – the distinguished