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Born November 14, 1810 • Versailles • France
Died December 31, 1880 (aged 70) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome
Movement / Style Second Empire style
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Paris: Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
French architect
Pierre Lescot, marble portrait bust by Julie Charpentier, 1814; in the Musée de Versailles, France.
Pierre Lescot
French architect
Pierre Fontaine
French architect
Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Jacques Lemercier
French architect
Tomb of Napoleon I
Louis-Tullius-Joachim Visconti
French architect
Opera House, Paris, by Charles Garnier, begun 1861
Charles Garnier
French architect
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
Henry Holland
British architect
Affonso Reidy
Brazilian architect
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
Smithsonian Institution
James Renwick
American architect
Jean I Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Mansart, François: Château of Maisons
François Mansart
French architect
Hôtel de Ville (town hall), Metz, France, by Jacques-François Blondel, 1765.
Jacques-François Blondel
French architect
Germain Boffrand
French architect
Le Nôtre, André
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect

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