page_title: List of French architects
section_title: Renaissance to Revolution
hierarchical_section_title: List of French architects / Renaissance to Revolution
context_page_description: The following is a chronological list of French architects. Some of their major architectural works are listed after each name.
context_section_description: 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
  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) – responsible for establishing 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
  Robert de Cotte (1656–1735) –  brother-in-law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects
  Esplanade of Les Invalides
  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)
  Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797)
  Various chateaux in the Limoges and the Limousin region
  Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793)
  Rue St. Honoré facade of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1770)
  Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)
  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)
caption: Palais-Royal entrance front by Moreau-Desproux
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