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Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born August 22, 1764 • Paris • France
Died September 5, 1838 (aged 74) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome
Movement / Style Empire style

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Pierre Fontaine
French architect
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Hector-Martin Lefuel
French architect
Le Nôtre, André
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Paris: Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
French architect
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Jacques Lemercier
French architect
Pierre Lescot, marble portrait bust by Julie Charpentier, 1814; in the Musée de Versailles, France.
Pierre Lescot
French architect
Arc de Triomphe
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
French architect
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Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Mansart, François: Château of Maisons
François Mansart
French architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
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Germain Boffrand
French architect
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Daniel Marot
French architect and designer
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Robert de Cotte
French architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect
Brosse, Salomon de: Palais du Luxembourg
Salomon de Brosse
French architect
Perrault, Claude
Claude Perrault
French physician and architect
Tomb of Napoleon I
Louis-Tullius-Joachim Visconti
French architect
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Juste-Aurèle Meissonier
French architect and goldsmith

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