Joseph-Antoine Froelicher

Josef Anton or Joseph-Antoine Froelicher or Frölicher (November 2, 1790 - 9 January 1866, Paris) was a Swiss architect. 

Coming from an old  middle-class family from Solothurn, Froelicher begins his architectural  studies in Switzerland, receiving his degree in Solothurn in 1809.   He then left for Paris, endowed with a pension from the Swiss government to complete his studies in Paris.   He entered the école des Beaux-Arts in 1809, gallicizing his name into Joseph Antoine Frelicher, then Froelicher. 

Architect to many families of the high French aristocracy, he built many châteaux and hôtels particuliers.   A Legitimist monarchist, he became the official architect to the duchess of Berry, which brought him much ill-feeling at the time of the July Revolution.   He was made a naturalised Frenchman in 1821, and his daughter married the architect Henri Parent. 

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