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Facts

Born c.1515 • Paris • France
Died 1578 • Paris • France

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Pierre Lescot, marble portrait bust by Julie Charpentier, 1814; in the Musée de Versailles, France.
Square Court of the Louvre, Paris
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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
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Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
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Jacques Lemercier
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Pierre Fontaine
French architect
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François Mansart
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Hôtel de Ville (town hall), Metz, France, by Jacques-François Blondel, 1765.
Jacques-François Blondel
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Delorme, Philibert
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Paris: Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
French architect
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French architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
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Libéral Bruant
French architect
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Robert Mallet-Stevens
French architect
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect
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Claude Perrault
French physician and architect
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