Pierre de Nolhac

Pierre de Nolhac was a French historian and poet from the 19th century. He became Director of the Château de Versailles Museum in 1892; a critical role as he gathered the art and furniture that had been dispersed during the Revolution. Elected as a member of the Académie Française in 1922, his written work on 18th-century France, including the art of the time, the Château de Versailles, French nobility, Marie Antoinette, Jean Marc Nattier, and Maurice Quentin de Latour, are seminal pieces to...See more

Pierre de Nolhac was a French historian and poet from the 19th century. He became Director of the Château de Versailles Museum in 1892; a critical role as he gathered the art and furniture that had been dispersed during the Revolution. Elected as a member of the Académie Française in 1922, his written work on 18th-century France, including the art of the time, the Château de Versailles, French nobility, Marie Antoinette, Jean Marc Nattier, and Maurice Quentin de Latour, are seminal pieces to this day. See less