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In 1790 and 1791, Lequeu was in charge of the public workshops for the Fete de la Federation. The following year he began working as a secondclass draughtsman at the Ecole Polytechnique, a position he held until 1802.. The survey office hired Lequeu as a first-class draughtsman in 1793, an^ he occupied the same position at the office of public works in 1797. He became first draughtsman-cartographer in the department of cartography of the ministry of the interior in 1802,. Lequeu retired from public service in 1815 and died on 28 March 1826, at the age of 69, leaving little but a library well stocked with architectural treatises and works on applied art and science.
These designations should not be confused. 37 Blondel's ideas concerning the unity of the principles of proportion and disposition under the rule of character were developed by Le Camus de Mezieres (172,1-92). "39 For Le Camus, the architect must take his inspiration from the inanimate objects of nature that have the power to influence our emotions. He praised Le Brun for this discovery: Occupied with such observations since my youth, my zeal has sustained itself by fixing my attention upon the works of nature.
Its essence had been named. Was this ultimate clarity an utter confusion? This declaration of architecture's spatial essence was soon reduced to aesthetic or formal composition, axes and the marche a suivre, design methodologies, typologies and the mecanisme de la composition. Its space was indeed the invisible, insidious space of panoptic domination and surveillance. Other artists and architects, however, adopted a strategy of resistance. Once geometric space had become the locus of social and political life, these architects sought to retrieve the mystery of depth, the transitional event of chora, by implementing strategies of destructuration and recollection of embodiment.