Bélidor, Bernard Forest de, La science des ingenieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d' architecture civile

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              gereuſe dans la Paix même la plus profonde: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4323" xml:space="preserve">l’art de fortifier eſt
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              ſuſceptible d’une infinité d’attentions qu’on ne peut négliger, ſans
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              qu’elles ne tirent à de grandes conſequences.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s4325" xml:space="preserve">Une attention qu’on doit avoir & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4326" xml:space="preserve">qui eſt eſſentielle, continuë Mr. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4327" xml:space="preserve">le
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              Marêchal de Vauban, eſt de donner les employs ſuivant la neceſſité
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              des Ouvrages & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4328" xml:space="preserve">la capacité d’un chacun, afin de n’y employer que
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              des gens utiles & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4329" xml:space="preserve">neceſſaires, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4330" xml:space="preserve">de ne charger perſonne de ce
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              qu’il ne ſait pas, ni de plus qu’il ne ſait faire: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4331" xml:space="preserve">ce deffaut, où l’on ne
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              prend pas garde, étant ordinairement l’origine & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4332" xml:space="preserve">la ſource de tous
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              les deſordres dans la conduite des Fortifications.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4333" xml:space="preserve"/>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s4334" xml:space="preserve">Il eſt très conſtant que ce qui nuit le plus à l’œconomie, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4335" xml:space="preserve">même
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              à l’avancement des Ouvrages, eſt le renouvellement frequent que
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              l’on fait de ceux qui en ont les principaux ſoins, ſpecialement des
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              Ingenieurs; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4336" xml:space="preserve">vû que de ce changement il arrive que perſonne ne
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              s’inſtruit jamais à fond, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4337" xml:space="preserve">l’on y eſt toûjours nouveau; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4338" xml:space="preserve">que l’on
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              ne connoît qu’imparfaitement la qualité des materiaux, leur prix,
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              & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4339" xml:space="preserve">la capacité des Ouvriers; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4340" xml:space="preserve">que l’on ne ſait, ni les moyens de faire
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              les Voitures, ni de quelle maniere s’y prendre pour établir ún bon
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              ordre: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4341" xml:space="preserve">cependant, ce ſont des parties qu’il faut neceſſairement ſa-
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              voir, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4342" xml:space="preserve">qui ne s’aprennent qu’avec du tems; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4343" xml:space="preserve">de plus j’ôſe bien
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              dire, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4344" xml:space="preserve">il n’eſt que trop certain, que quelque ſoin que les gens pren-
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              nent à ſe rendre ſavans dans ce métier, le Souverain, aux dépens
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              de qui on l’aprend, en paye toûjours chérement l’apprentiſſage.
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4345" xml:space="preserve">Car s’il eſt vrai (comme l’on n’en peut pas douter) que dans tous
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              les commencemens des grands Ouvrages il eſt impoſſible aux plus
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              intelligens même, quelque application qu’ils y apportent, d’empê-
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              cher que la dépenſe n’en excede toûjours le juſte prix d’un cinquié-
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              me ou d’un ſixiéme; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4346" xml:space="preserve">que doit-il arriver aux Travaux de Places,
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              où l’on change tous les ans d’Ingenieurs, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4347" xml:space="preserve">où jamais perſonne n’a
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              le tems d’apprendre ce qu’il doit ſavoir. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4348" xml:space="preserve">Certainement, il n’en
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              peut proceder que des deſſeins mal executés & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4349" xml:space="preserve">des redoublemens
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              de dépenſes effroyables, à quoi il n’y a d’autre remede que de bien
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              choiſir une fois pour tout les gens qu’on y voudra employer, ſe
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              donner patience qu’ils s’y ſoient bien inſtruits, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4350" xml:space="preserve">les perpetuer
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              après dans l’employ tant qu’on aura beſoin d’eux & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4351" xml:space="preserve">qu’ils s’y con-
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              duiront bien.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s4353" xml:space="preserve">F’ ai tiré ce Diſcours mot pour mot, d’un petit Ouvrage de Mr. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4354" xml:space="preserve">de
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              Vauban, qui a pour Titre, Le Directeur General des Fortifications.</s>
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