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Facts

Born August 13, 1869 • Lyon • France
Died January 19, 1948 (aged 78) • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome

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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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Pierre Charles L’Enfant
French engineer and architect
Church of Notre-Dame, Le Raincy, Fr., by Auguste and Gustave Perret, 1923, with stained glass by Maurice Denis
Auguste Perret
French architect
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Lúcio Costa
Brazilian architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Desprez, Louis-Jean: Botanical Garden's conservatory
Louis-Jean Desprez
French painter and architect
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Emmanuel Héré de Corny
French architect
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
François Rude: Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 (La Marseillaise)
François Rude
French sculptor
Arc de Triomphe
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
French architect
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Hector-Martin Lefuel
French architect
Opera House, Paris, by Charles Garnier, begun 1861
Charles Garnier
French architect
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Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu
French sculptor
Labrouste, Henri: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Henri Labrouste
French architect
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José Benito Churriguera
Spanish architect
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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
American architect
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Andrés Duany
American architect
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Swiss architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Alvar Aalto.
Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect

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