List of French Architects - Renaissance To Revolution

Renaissance To Revolution

Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1510-c. 1585)

• Important book of architectural engravings.

Philibert Delorme (or De L’Orme) (1510/1515-1570)

• Chateau d'Anet (c.1550) – for Diane de Poitiers
• Tuileries Palace (1564–1567)

Pierre Lescot (1515–1578)

• Hôtel Carnavalet (c. 1545)
• Louvre (1546) – for Francis I and Henry II
• Fontaine des Innocents (1550) – carved by Jean Goujon

Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1545-1590)

• Pont Neuf (1599) – for Henry IV

Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau (c. 1550-1614)

• Galerie du Louvre
• Pavillon de Flore (Tuileries)

Salomon de Brosse (1575–1626)

• Luxembourg Palace (1615) – for Marie de' Medici
• St. Gervais church (facade) (1616)
• Blérancourt
• Palais de Justice in Rennes (1618)

Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585–1649)

• Hôtel de Sully (1624–1629)

Jacques Lemercier (1585–1654) – active for Richelieu

• Palais-Royal (1632) – for Richelieu
• The city of Richelieu (from 1631)
• La Sorbonne church (1635) – for Richelieu
• Pavillon de l'Horloge (Louvre)
• St. Roch church
• Val-de-Grâce church (1667) – responsible for the construction

François Mansart (1598–1666)

• Château de Blois (1635–1638)
• Val-de-Grâce (plans) – for Anne d’Autriche (Anne of Austria)
• Château de Maisons (1642–1646)
• Hôtel Guénégaud (1648–1651)
• Hôtel Carnavalet (1655) - remodel
• Hôtel d'Aumont - remodel after Louis Le Vau

Louis Le Vau (1612–1670)

• Apollo wing of the Louvre
• Hôtel Lambert (1640)
• Vaux-le-Vicomte (1656) – for Nicolas Fouquet; this was to be the prototype of the palace of Versailles
• Hôtel de Lauzun (1657)
• Château de Vincennes (1659) – for Mazarin
• Palace of Versailles – reconstruction, on the model of his Vaux-le-Vicomte, as a place of fêtes
• St. Louis-en-l'île church (on the Île Saint-Louis) (1664) - plans
• Institut de France – for Mazarin

Claude Perrault (1613–1688) – responsible for establishing French classicism

• Colonnade of the Louvre (1667–1673)
• Observatoire de Paris – plans

Libéral Bruant (c. 1636-1697)

• Hôtel de la Salpêtrière (1660–1677)
• Les Invalides (1671–1676)

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.

• Palace of Versailles (from 1678) - Royal Stables, Orangerie, Grand Trianon, Chapel
• Palace of Saint-Cloud – for the Philip I, Duke of Orléans
• Château of Marly
• Domed chapel of Les Invalides
• Place des Victoires
• Place Vendôme
• Château de Meudon

Robert de Cotte (1656–1735) - brother in law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects

• Esplanade of Les Invalides

Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782) – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles

• Palace of Versailles (1735–1777) - Apartment of the king, Versailles Opera, Library, Petit Trianon (1762–1764)
• Place de la Concorde (Place Louis XV)
• École Militaire (1751–1775)

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780)

• The Panthéon (called the Eglise Sainte Geneviève) (1756–1780)

Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)

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

• Wall of the Farmers-General (1784–1791) – visible at the Place de la Nation and Denfert-Rochereau
• Hôtel d'Hallwyl (remodel)
• Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans (Les Salines Royales)

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826)