Jean-Baptiste Lepère (December 1, 1761 – July 16, 1844) was a French architect, father-in-law of the architect

Jacques Hittorff Jacques Ignace Hittorff or, in German, Jakob Ignaz Hittorff (, ) ( Cologne, 20 August 1792 – 25 March 1867) was a German-born French architect who combined advanced structural use of new materials, notably cast iron, with conservative Bea ...

. He was the designer of the church of

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, largely revised by Hittorf during its protracted execution, and one of the architects who worked on raising the colonne Vendôme. Lepère was one of the many members of the ''Commission des Sciences et des Arts'' taken by Bonaparte on his Egyptian Expedition. While there, Lepère also produced drawings of ancient Egyptian temples and other remains. Other members of this commission were Jacques-Marie Le Père (1763–1841) and his brother Gratien Le Père (1769–1826), engineers and surveyors, who were to see whether Napoleon's planned project of linking the

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with the

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across the

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could be realised and if the difference in sea level between the two was sufficiently small to make such a canal possible.

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Drawings by Jean-Baptiste Lepère

Views of Karnak
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Jean-Baptiste Lepère on ''Structurae''
1761 births 1844 deaths Architects from Paris 18th-century French architects 19th-century French architects French Egyptologists Commission des Sciences et des Arts members {{Egyptologist-stub