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Born November 14, 1810 • Versailles • France • (Birthday tomorrow)
Died December 31, 1880 (aged 70) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome
Movement / Style Second Empire style
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Paris: Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
French architect
Pierre Lescot, marble portrait bust by Julie Charpentier, 1814; in the Musée de Versailles, France.
Pierre Lescot
French architect
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Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
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Pierre Fontaine
French architect
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Jacques Lemercier
French architect
Tomb of Napoleon I
Louis-Tullius-Joachim Visconti
French architect
Opera House, Paris, by Charles Garnier, begun 1861
Charles Garnier
French architect
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
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Henry Holland
British architect
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Affonso Reidy
Brazilian architect
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
Smithsonian Institution
James Renwick
American architect
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Jean I Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Mansart, François: Château of Maisons
François Mansart
French architect
Hôtel de Ville (town hall), Metz, France, by Jacques-François Blondel, 1765.
Jacques-François Blondel
French architect
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Germain Boffrand
French architect
Le Nôtre, André
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect

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