Jacques-Raymond Lucotte

Jacques-Raymond Lucotte was an 18th-century French architect and encyclopedist.[1]

Planche Gravure en Bois, outils du vol. IV of the Encyclopédie to which Jacques-Raymond Lucotte contributed.

A former student of the Académie royale d'architecture, Lucotte wrote the articles "maçonnerie", "marbrier", "marqueterie", "menuiserie", "mosaïque (art. méchaniques)", "plomberie", "pont, des machines", "fleuriste", "formier", "tourbissure", "ganterie" and "serrurerie" in the volumes IX to XVII of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert. He also provided more than 45 comments and over 650 drawings to the plate volumes.

Lucotte left two works:

  • le Vignole moderne, ou Traité élémentaire d’architecture (3 vol., Paris, 1772–1784)
  • l’Art de la maçonnerie (Paris, 1783)

Sources
  • Frank Arthur Kafker, The Encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie, Oxford, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth Century, 1988, p. 235-7. ISBN 0-7294-0368-8.
  • Reed Benhamou, « The Sincerest Form of flattery: the professional life of J. R. Lucotte », Studies on Voltaire, n° 249, 1987, p. 381-97.

References
  1. His known activities suggest that he was born before 1745 and died after 1789.
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