This entry concerns French architects.
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)
Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plans
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)
Pierre Lescot (1515-1578)
- Hôtel Carnavalet (c.1545)
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Louvre (1546) – for François I and Henri II
- Fontaine des Innocents (1550) – carved by Jean Goujon
Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1545-1590)
Jacques II Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1550-1614)
- Galerie du Louvre
- Pavillon de Flore (Tuileries)
Salomon de Brosse (1575-1626)
Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585-1649)
- Hôtel de Sully (1624-1629)
Jacques Lemercier (1585-1654) – active for Richelieu
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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
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Val-de-Grâce church (1667) – responsible for the construction
François Mansart (1598-1666)
- Château de Blois (1635-8)
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Val-de-Grâce (plans) – for Anne d’Autriche (Anne of Austria)
- Château de Maisons (1642-1646)
- Hôtel Guénégaud (1648-51)
- Hôtel Carnavalet (1655) - remodel
- Hôtel d’Aumont - remodel after Louis Le Vau
Louis Le Vau (1612-1670)
Claude Perrault (1613-1688) – responsible for establishing French classicism
Libéral Bruant (c.1636-1697)
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
Jacques Ange Gabriel (1698-1782) – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles
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.
- Farmers General Wall (1784-1791) – visible at the Place de la Nation and Denfert-Rochereau
- Hôtel d’Hallwyl (remodel)
- Les Salines Royales (Arc-et-Senans )
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
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Les Halles centrales (1854-1870) – destroyed in 1971 to make way for a shopping mall.
- St. Eustache (church) – remodel
- St. Etienne du Mont (church) – remodel
- St. Augustin (church) (1860-1871)
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) – important theoretician of the 19th century Gothic revival
- Château de Pierrefonds – restoration
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Notre Dame de Paris – restoration
- the city of Carcassonne – restoration
- Saint Germain-des-prés (church) – restoration
- Saint Séverin (church) – restoration
Charles Garnier (1825-1898) – celebrated architect of the Second Empire
Hector Guimard (1867-1942) – Art nouveau architect and designer
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 (1944-)
Jean Nouvel (1945-)
- Institut du Monde Arabe
- Fondation Cartier
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