Jean Métezeau ( ? – 27 April 1600 in

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) was a 16th-century French architect. He came from a family of master masons and

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s from

. He was the son of

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and brother of Thibault Métezeau, also architects.Berty 1860; Babelon 1996. A disciple of

Philibert de l'Orme Philibert de l'Orme () (3-9 June 1514 – 8 January 1570) was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of French Renaissance architecture. His surname is also written De l'Orme, de L'Orme, or Delorme. Biography Early care ...

, Métezeau worked at Dreux as a master builder at the , where he reinterpreted

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in the spirit of what De l'Orme made at the Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes. After completing the Saint-Vincent tower, he probably built the south arm of the transept and its portal.

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Bibliography

* Babelon, Jean-Pierre (1996)
Métezeau family
vol. 21, pp. 545–546, in ''

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'', 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner. London: Macmillan. *

Berty, Adolphe Adolphe Berty (also known as Boulet; 13 May 1818, Paris – 18 August 1867, Paris) was a historiographer, archaeologist, historian of architecture, and French architect. Berty was the founder of Parisian topography; he was also responsible for ...

(1860)
"Les Métezeau", pp. 119–134
in ''Les grands architectes français de la Renaissance''. Paris: A. Aubry
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