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Jean-Marie Morel (1728-1810), a leading French landscape designer and theorist, is now mainly remembered as the author of one of the fundamental eighteenth-century texts in the history of landscape architecture the Th orie des jardins (1776; second edition, 1802).
With his background as an engineer, Morel also played an instrumental role in shaping the profession of landscape architecture, opening up a new professional domain by coining the term architecte-paysagiste, the pr.
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