page_title: Claude Nicolas Ledoux
section_title: Constructions
hierarchical_section_title: Claude Nicolas Ledoux / Works / Constructions
context_page_description: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture. He used his knowledge of architectural theory to design not only domestic architecture but also town planning; as a consequence of his visionary plan for the Ideal City of Chaux, he became known as a utopian. His greatest works were funded by the French monarchy and came to be perceived as symbols of the Ancien Régime rather than Utopia. The French Revolution hampered his career; much of his work was destroyed in the nineteenth century. In 1804, he published a collection of his designs under the title L'Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des mœurs et de la législation. In this book he took the opportunity of revising his earlier designs, making them more rigorously neoclassical and up to date. This revision has distorted an accurate assessment of his role in the evolution of Neoclassical architecture. His most ambitious work was the uncompleted Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, an idealistic and visionary town showing many examples of architecture parlante.
context_section_description: Decoration of Café militaire (or Café Godeau), rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, 1762 (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)
  Château de Mauperthuis (Seine-et-Marne), 1763 (destroyed)
  Hôtel du président Hocquart, 66 rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, Paris, 1764-1765 (destroyed)
  Hôtel d'Hallwyll, 28 rue Michel-le-Comte and 15 rue de Montmorency, Paris, 1766: It is the only private construction of Ledoux which remains in the capital.
  Hôtel d'Uzès, rue Montmartre, Paris, 1767 (détruit vers 1870): The boiseries du salon de compagnie have been conserved since 1968 at the Carnavalet Museum.
  Château de Bénouville, Bénouville, Calvados (near Caen), 1768-1769: Property of the general council of the Calvados, at the present it houses the chambre régionale des comptes.
  Hôtel de la présidente de Gourgues, 53 rue Saint-Dominique, Paris (reconstructed)
  Hôtel of Mlle Guimard, Chaussée-d'Antin, Paris (destroyed)
  Maison de Mlle Saint-Germain, rue Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1769-1770 (destroyed)
  Pavillon Saint-Lambert, Eaubonne (destroyed)
  Pavillon d'Attilly, faubourg Poissonnière, Paris, 1771 (destroyed)
  Pavillon de musique de Mme du Barry, Louveciennes, 1770–1771
  Hôtel de Montmorency, intersection of rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and boulevard, Paris, 1772 (destroyed) : The woodwork of the circular salon are preserved at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
  Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans (1774–1779) (classified as monuments historiques of France and a World Heritage Site of UNESCO in 1982)
  Théâtre de Besançon, 1778–1784
  Hôtel Thellusson, rue de Provence, Paris, 1778 (destroyed in 1826 at the time the prolongation of rue Laffitte)
  Hôtel de Mme d'Espinchal, rue des Petites-Écuries, Paris (destroyed)
  Parc de Bourneville, La Ferté-Milon (Aisne)
  Grenier à sel de Compiègne (OiseÂ)
  Siège de la Ferme générale, rue du Bouloi, Paris
  Pavillons et barrières de l'Octroi de Paris (see Wall of the Farmers-General) (1785).
caption: Hôtel de Mlle Guimard - Elevation
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