Thibault Métezeau or Thibaut Métezeau (born 21 October 1533 at

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– died before 18 December 1586 in Paris)Jean-Pierre Babelon (1996)
"Métezeau family"
vol. 21, pp. 345–346, in ''

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'', 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner. New York: Grove. . was a French architect. He was the son of

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, master mason and father of architects

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and Clément II Métezeau. He was the younger brother of

Jean Métezeau Jean Métezeau ( ? – 27 April 1600 in Dreux) was a 16th-century French architect. He came from a family of master masons and general contractors from Dreux. He was the son of Clément Métezeau and brother of Thibault Métezeau, also architect ...

, also an architect.

Biography

He spent the first part of his life in Dreux until 1569, when he moved to Paris, where he worked on the

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under

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 ...

, on the Valois chapel at the

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(1572–1582), and from 1578 as one of the contractors on the

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. He was still in charge of work on the Pont Neuf in 1582."Pont Neuf"
on Structurae. He was quoted as architect to the

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in 1576, then appointed architect to king Henri III on 25 March 1578. He has been suggested as possibly the initial designer of the Hôtel de Nevers on the Left Bank (1580), and the design of the Hôtel d'Angoulême (1585) has also been attributed to him. In 1585, he realized the avant-portail of the

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. The historian of Paris Henri Sauval, writing around 1650 but published in 1724, attributed to him the design of the Salle des Antiques (Antiquities Room) in the

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of the

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, although construction is not believed to have begun until 1595 under his son

Louis Métezeau Louis Métezeau (1559 – 18 August 1615) was a French architect.Babelon 1996, p. 345. Life and career Métezeau was born in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, and died in Paris. He was the son of Thibault Métezeau, the brother of Clément II Métezeau and ...

. Henri Sauval (1724)
"La salle des Antiques", vol. 1, pp. 42–44
in ''Histoire et recherches des antiquités de la ville de Paris''. Paris: Charles Moette and Jacques Chardon.

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Thibault Métezeau and the Pont Neuf
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