Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was a French architect.
Biography
Born in
Rouen
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, Blondel was admitted in the
Académie d'architecture
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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.
Main realisations
* Maison Mallet, Geneva, 1724.
* Maison de Saussure, , 1724-1730.
* , 1736-1740
* , 1741-1747 (destroyed in 1944)
* Hôtel des gardes du Roi,
Versailles
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, 1750-1754
Genthod campagne Creux-de-Genthod 2011-09-25 09 54 32 PICT4924.JPG,
Morlaix (29) Manufacture des tabacs 03.jpg,
References
Bibliography
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External links
18th-century French architects
Members of the Académie royale d'architecture
Architects from Rouen
1683 births
1756 deaths
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