List of French architects
# List of French architects

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

## Middle Ages

Étienne de Bonneuil (late 13th century)

* Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden

Jean de Chelles (13th century)

* Notre Dame de Paris

Pierre de Montreuil (c. 1200–1266)

* Notre Dame de Paris
* the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
* Saint Denis Basilica

Matthias of Arras (?–1352)

* Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague

Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plans

Pierre d'Angicourt (late 13th century)

* Lucera castle

Pierre de Chaule (late 13th century)

* Castel Nuovo

## 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)

* Louvre Palace (Lescot Wing, 1546) – for Francis I and Henry II
* Hôtel Carnavalet (attributed, begun 1547)
* 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)

* Grande Galerie du Louvre
* Pavillon de Flore (Tuileries)

Salomon de Brosse (1575–1626)

* Luxembourg Palace (1615) – for Marie de' Medici
* St. Gervais church (facade) (1616)
* Château de 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-Cardinal (1632) – for Richelieu
* Château de Richelieu
* City of Richelieu (from 1631)
* La Sorbonne church (1635) – for Richelieu
* Pavillon de l'Horloge (Louvre)
* St. Roch church
* Abbaye du Val-de-Grâce (1646–1653, further construction)

François Mansart (1598–1666)

* Château de Blois (1635–1638)
* Abbaye du Val-de-Grâce (1643–1646, plans and initial construction) – for Anne d'Autriche (Anne of Austria)
* Château de Maisons (1642–1646)
* Hôtel de 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
* Saint-Louis-en-l'Île church (on the Île Saint-Louis) (1664) – plans
* Collège des Quatre-Nations (now the Institut de France) – for Mazarin

Claude Perrault (1613–1688) – helped to establish 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

Pierre Lassurance (1655–1724)

* Château de Petit-Bourg

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

* Esplanade of Les Invalides
* Palais Rohan, Strasbourg

Germain Boffrand (1667–1754)

* Château Lunéville
* Remodelling of the Petit Luxembourg
* Interiors at the Hôtel de Soubise

Pierre-Alexis Delamair (1675/6–1745)

* Hôtel de Soubise
* Hôtel de Rohan

Jean Aubert (c. 1680–1741)

* Stables of the Château de Chantilly
* Hôtel Biron
* Palais Bourbon

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)

Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793)

* Rue St. Honoré facade of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1770)
* Second Salle du Palais-Royal, first purpose-built opera house in Paris

Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)

* Hôtel Alexandre

Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797)

* Various chateaux in the Limoges and the Limousin region

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)

## Revolution to World War II

Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) – famous for his use of steel

* Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (1843–1861)
* National Library

Victor Baltard (1805–1874) – famous for his use of steel and glass

* Les Halles centrales (1854–1870) – destroyed in 1971 to make way for a shopping mall
* St. Eustache (church) – remodel
* Saint-Étienne-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
* 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

* Palais Garnier, also known as the Paris Opera (now Opera Garnier) (1862–1875)
* Théâtre Marigny
* Casino of Monte Carlo (1878)

Clair Tisseur (1827–1896), Romanesque Revival architect and designer

* Église du Bon-Pasteur, Lyon (1875–1883)

Frantz Jourdain (1847–1935) – Art Nouveau architect and theorist

* La Samaritaine, Paris (1903-1907)

Auguste Louzier Sainte-Anne (1848-1925) – Chief architect of historic monuments

Eugène Vallin (1856–1922) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy

* Vallin House and Studio (with Georges Biet) (1896)
* Vaxelaire Department Store (with Emile André) (1901)
* Biet Apartment House (with Georges Biet) (1902)
* Société Générale Bank/Aimé Apartment House (with Georges Biet) (1904–1906)
* École de Nancy Pavilion, Exposition Internationale de l'Est de la France (1909)

Lucien Weissenburger (1860–1929) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy

* Magasins Réunis (department store), Nancy (1890–1907)
* Villa Majorelle, Nancy (with Henri Sauvage) (1898–1901)
* Imprimerie Royer (printing house), Nancy (1899–1900)
* Brenas Apartment House, Nancy (1902)
* Bergeret House, Nancy (1904)
* Weissenburger House, Nancy (1904–1906)
* Brasserie Excelsior and Angleterre Hotel, Nancy (with Alexandre Mienville) (1911)
* Vaxelaire, Pignot, and Company Department Store, Nancy (1913)

Hector Guimard (1867–1942) – Art nouveau architect and designer

Émile André (1871–1933) – Art nouveau architect, urbanist and artist, member of the École de Nancy

* Vaxelaire Department Store, Nancy (with Eugène Vallin) (1901)
* Parc de Saurupt, Nancy (garden-city), designer (with Henri Gutton) (1901–1906)
* Maisons Huot, Nancy (1903)
* France-Lanord Apartment Building, Nancy (1902–1903)
* Lombard Apartment Building, Nancy (1902–1904)
* Renauld Bank, Nancy (with Paul Charbonnier) (1908–1910)
* Ducret Apartment Building, Nancy (with Paul Charbonnier) (1908–1910)

Auguste Perret (1874–1954) and his brothers Claude and Gustave – important for the first use of reinforced concrete

* Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Paul Tournon (1881–1964)

Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886–1945) – modernist architect influenced by Le Corbusier

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

Léon Azéma (1888–1978) – appointed Architect of the City of Paris in 1928

* Douaumont ossuary (1932)

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

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

François Spoerry (1912–1999)

* Grimaud, Var, France
* Puerto Escondido, Baja California Sur, Mexico
* Port Liberté, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
* Bendinat, Majorca, Spain
* Saifi Village, Beirut, Lebanon

## Post World War II

Christian de Portzamparc (born 1944)

* La Villette – City of Music
* Café Beaubourg

Henry Bernard (1912–94)

* Palace of Europe

Jean-Marie Charpentier

* Shanghai Grand Theatre

Pascale Guédot (born 1960)

* Médiathèque at Oloron-Sainte-Marie (Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent)

Michel Mossessian

* Five Merchant Square in London, UK
* NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
* ExxonMobil Technology Centre in Shanghai, China

Jean Nouvel (born 1945)

* Institut du Monde Arabe
* Fondation Cartier
* Torre Agbar, in Barcelona, Spain
* Musée du quai Branly

Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986)

* Old Port of Marseille
* Tabriz railway station
* Résidence Salmson Le Point du Jour
* Chateau de Belcastel

Roger Taillibert

* Parc des Princes in Paris
* Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
* Olympic Velodrome, Montreal (now called the Montreal Biodome)
* Olympic Pool (Montreal)

Michel Pinseau

* Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco

Philippe Ameller and Jacques Dubois

* Eurotunnel in Calais
* ISIPCA in Versailles
* Centre de la petite enfance in Issy-les-Moulineaux
* Lycée Louis-Armand in Eaubonne
* Police station in Provins

Florent Nédélec, DPLG

* The Jervois Hong Kong
* Yong He Yuan Taiwan
