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The following is a chronological list of French architects. Some of their major architectural works are listed after each name.

Middle Ages

Jean de Chelles (13th century) Pierre de Montreuil (c.1200-1266) Matthias of Arras (?-1352) Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plans

Renaissance to Revolution

Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1510-c. 1585) Philibert Delorme (or De L’Orme) (1510/1515-1570) Pierre Lescot (1515-1578) Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1545-1590) Jacques II Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1550-1614)
Luxembourg Palace and Gardens
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Luxembourg Palace and Gardens

Salomon de Brosse (1575-1626)

Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585-1649)
The Palais Royal in Paris
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The Palais Royal in Paris

Jacques Lemercier (1585-1654) – active for Richelieu

François Mansart (1598-1666) Louis Le Vau (1612-1670) Claude Perrault (1613-1688) – responsible for establishing French classicism Libéral Bruant (c.1636-1697)
Les Invalides
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Les Invalides

Jules Hardouin Mansart (Jules Hardouin; he adopted the name Mansart in 1668) (1646-1708) – responsible for the massive expansion of the palace of Versailles into a permanent royal residence.

Robert de Cotte (1656-1735) - brother in law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698-1782) – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713-1780) Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799)

Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) – famous for his mathematical neoclassicism.

Revolution to World War II

Henri Labrouste (1801-1875) – famous for his use of steel Victor Baltard (1805-1874) – famous for his use of steel and glass
Garnier's Paris Opera
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Garnier's Paris Opera

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) – important theoretician of the 19th century Gothic revival

Charles Garnier (1825-1898) – celebrated architect of the Second Empire Eugène Vallin (1856-1922) – Art nouveau architect, member of the Ecole de Nancy Lucien Weissenburger (1860-1929) – Art nouveau architect, member of the Ecole de Nancy Hector Guimard (1867-1942) – Art nouveau architect and designer

Emile André (1871-1933) – Art nouveau architect, urbanist and artist, member of the Ecole de Nancy

Auguste Perret (1874-1954) and his brothers Claude and Gustave – important for the first use of reinforced concrete Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945) – modernist architect influenced by Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) (1887-1965)

Eugène Beaudouin (1898-1983) – influential use of prefabricated elements

Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) – international style/Bauhaus inspired

Post World War II

Christian de Portzamparc (born 1944) Jean Nouvel (born 1945) Jean-Marie Charpentier

See also

 


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