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Born c.1515 • Paris • France
Died 1578 • Paris • France

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Pierre Lescot, marble portrait bust by Julie Charpentier, 1814; in the Musée de Versailles, France.
Square Court of the Louvre, Paris
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Hector-Martin Lefuel
French architect
Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
Jacques Lemercier
French architect
Pierre Fontaine
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French architect
Mansart, François: Château of Maisons
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French architect
Hôtel de Ville (town hall), Metz, France, by Jacques-François Blondel, 1765.
Jacques-François Blondel
French architect
Germain Boffrand
French architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Paris: Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
French architect
Robert de Cotte
French architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Les Invalides, Paris
Libéral Bruant
French architect
Robert Mallet-Stevens
French architect
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect
Brosse, Salomon de: Palais du Luxembourg
Salomon de Brosse
French architect
Perrault, Claude
Claude Perrault
French physician and architect
Antoine Le Pautre
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