Jean-Baptiste VAQUETTE de GRIBEAUVAL (Amiens, Somme, 1715 – - Lot 155

Jean-Baptiste VAQUETTE de GRIBEAUVAL (Amiens, Somme, 1715 – Paris, 1789), Lieutenant General and Engineer. It was thanks to his reforms that the French artillery, at the start of the Revolution, was by far the best in Europe. The calibers in use for a century were established during his tenure. Letter A.S., Paris, March 19, 1778, to Mr. Lesansguerre. 2 pages, in-4°: He expresses great satisfaction with Mr. de Miscault’s work, “...As for the foundations, which are said to have been laid too deep and made too thick, I believe that when building on fill soil over bedrock where water constantly causes shifting, one can never make them too solid...”

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