THE TEN BOOKS fe™ \ LUGoJ D ARCHITECTURE D E PROOFREAD Z AND TRANSLATED newly in François, with Notes & Figures. Second Edition review-edited, corrected, & augmented. By M, PERRAULT of the Academie Roy aile des Sciences > Do Heur en Adedecine of the Faculty of Paris, IN PARIS- ChezJEAN BAPTISTE COIGNARD, Ordinary printer of the King, rue S. Jacques, with the Golden Bible. MR. DC. L XX XI V. tAVEC PRIVILEGE < HIS MAJESTY'. This is the time that ï Architecture de Vitruve a thon- mur d'eftre dedicated to the greatest Prince of the Earth. Her Uluflre Author once preferred her to the Emperor Agufle, she then found herself in such a degree of elevation, that she could no longer screw up in anything similar. Her Interpreter offers today to Voflre Ma je fié, & doubt not that the glory which this beautiful Science receives today, is equal to that of which she once lived fulfilled > & that the greatness of P7. M. ne fupplée E P I S T R E. The most important thing is to be aware of what may be missing from the person who prefers it. Indeed, SIRE, in order to put this master of the fine Arts back in the luflre where she fled to the fiecle of Augufle, it is necessary that she met a Prince, who by conquejles by extraordinary Virtues meritaft made more beautiful