366 LOUIS XVI.have judged it appropriate to establish in this declaration all
our views on this subject, & to give the most useful shape
to our Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
For these reasons, etc.
I. The arts of painting and sculpture are and will continue
to be free, as much in our good city of Paris as throughout the
rest of our kingdom, whenever they are exercised in an
entirely liberal manner, as will be explained in the following
two articles. Desiring in this respect that they should be
perfectly analogous to Literature, the Sciences & other
liberal arts, especially architecture; in such a manner that
those wishing the above said arts of this kind should not,
under any pretext, be troubled or bothered by any
corporation or guild.
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