Jean Francois Blondel
Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was a French architect.
Jean Francois Blondel
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- Born
- 1683 · Rouen.
- Died
- 1756 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- architect · painter
- Languages
- French
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Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was a French architect.
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Born in Rouen, Blondel was admitted in the Académie d'Architecture in 1728. He was the master and uncle of Jacques-François. He also had another nephew as a student, Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe, whom he took in his agency on his return from Rome.
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• Maison Mallet, Geneva, 1724 • Maison de Saussure, Creux de Genthod, 1724-1730 • Maison Rouillé, Paris, 1732–1739 • Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix, 1736-1740 • Palais des Consuls (Rouen), 1741-1747 (destroyed in 1944) • Hôtel des gardes du Roi, Versailles, 1750-1754 • Illustration — Maison de Saussure, Creux de Genthod • Illustration — Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix
An old postcard from around 1908 showing the Palais des Consuls in Rouen, built in 1743 by the architect Jean-François Blondel. It was the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce. It was destroyed by bombing in 1944 and rebuilt in an Art Deco style between 1952 and 1956.
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Hôtel Maillard de Ballore Conseiller au Parlement de Paris Architecte Blondel 1731
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- 1.Armand Brulhart. 2004-10-05. 2017-03-02.
- 2.Blondel, François (1683–1756) catalogue.bnf.fr
- 3.Hans Vollmer. Blondel, François II. 136.
- 4.Hans Vollmer. Blondel, Jacques-François. 136.
- 5.Vergleiche die Angaben auf der Webseite structurae.de, abgerufen am 2. März 2017.
- 6.Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Hinrich-Wilhelm-Kopf-Platz 1, in Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek (Hrsg.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), Neuausgabe, 4., aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8, S. 148–151; hier: S. 149
- 7.o.V.: (PDF, illustriert und mit Kurztext in französischer Sprache), zuletzt abgerufen am 2. März 2017.
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