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Mirabeau Replying To Dreux-Brézé
''Mirabeau Replying to Dreux-Brézé'' or ''Mirabeau Before Dreux-Brézé'' is a c.1830 oil on canvas by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard showing Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Mirabeau's response to Henri-Évrard de Dreux-Brézé (sent by Louis XVI to split up the Estates General of 1789) in the immediate aftermath of the Tennis Court Oath. It is now in the Louvre Museum, which bought it in 1984. History Fragonard submitted the work as an oil sketch entry to the July Monarchy's 1830 competition to decorate the meeting hall of the Chamber of Deputies of France, Chambre des députés. Other entrants included Paul Chenavard (now in the musée Carnavalet), Charles de Steuben (now in a private collection), Joseph-Désiré Court (now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen) and Eugène Delacroix (now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek). Fragonard's entry was ajudged to be too theatrical and dramatic and he did not win the competition. References

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Mirabeau Répondant à Dreux-Brézé
Mirabeau may refer to: People * Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715–1789), French physiocrat * Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749–1791), renowned orator, a figure in the French Revolution and son of Victor * André Boniface Louis Riqueti de Mirabeau (1754–1792), also known as ''Barrel Mirabeau'', brother of Honoré * Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), second President of the Republic of Texas Places * 8169 Mirabeau, a minor planet * Mirabeau, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a commune of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France * Mirabeau, Vaucluse, a commune of Vaucluse, France * Le Bignon-Mirabeau, a commune of Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France * Les Pennes-Mirabeau, a commune of Bouches-du-Rhône, France Other uses * Le Mirabeau, a high-rise building in Monaco * Mirabeau (company), a Dutch company * Mirabeau (Paris Métro), a station on Paris Métro, France * Mirabeau restaurant, Dublin, operated 1972–1984 by Seán Kinsella * Mirabeau, a sector on the north ...
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