List of French architects

French art history
Overview Categories
Historical periods
Prehistoric Medieval Gothic Renaissance 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century
French artists
Artists (chronological) Artists – Painters Sculptors – Architects Photographers
Thematic
Art movements (chronological) Art movements (category) Salons and academies French art museums
Most visited
Impressionism – Cubism Dada – Surrealism
See also
Art portal France portal Western art history

The following is a chronological list of French architects. Some of their major architectural works are listed after each name.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Middle Ages

Étienne de Bonneuil (late 13th century)

Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden

Jean de Chelles (13th century)

Notre Dame de Paris

Pierre de Montreuil (c. 1200–1266)

Matthias of Arras (?–1352)

Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague

Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plans

Renaissance to Revolution

Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1510–c. 1585)

Important book of architectural engravings

Philibert Delorme (or De L'Orme) (1510/1515–1570)

Chateau d'Anet (c.1550) – for Diane de Poitiers
Tuileries Palace (1564–1567)

Pierre Lescot (1515–1578)

Louvre Palace (Lescot Wing, 1546) – for Francis I and Henry II
Hôtel Carnavalet (attributed, begun 1547)
Fontaine des Innocents (1550) – carved by Jean Goujon

Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1545–1590)

Pont Neuf (1599) – for Henry IV

Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau (c. 1550–1614)

Grande Galerie du Louvre
Pavillon de Flore (Tuileries)

Luxembourg Palace by de Brosse

Salomon de Brosse (1575–1626)

Luxembourg Palace (1615) – for Marie de' Medici
St. Gervais church (facade) (1616)
Château de Blérancourt
Palais de Justice in Rennes (1618)

Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585–1649)

Hôtel de Sully (1624–1629)

Lemercier's Pavillon de l'Horloge at the Louvre

Jacques Lemercier (1585–1654) – active for Richelieu

Palais-Cardinal (1632) – for Richelieu
City of Richelieu (from 1631)
La Sorbonne church (1635) – for Richelieu
Pavillon de l'Horloge (Louvre)
St. Roch church
Abbaye du Val-de-Grâce (1646–1653, further construction)

François Mansart (1598–1666)

Château de Blois (1635–1638)
Abbaye du Val-de-Grâce (1643–1646, plans and initial construction) – for Anne d'Autriche (Anne of Austria)
Château de Maisons (1642–1646)
Hôtel Guénégaud (1648–1651)
Hôtel Carnavalet (1655) – remodel
Hôtel d'Aumont – remodel after Louis Le Vau

Louis Le Vau (1612–1670)

Apollo wing of the Louvre
Hôtel Lambert (1640)
Vaux-le-Vicomte (1656) – for Nicolas Fouquet; this was to be the prototype of the Palace of Versailles
Hôtel de Lauzun (1657)
Château de Vincennes (1659) – for Mazarin
Palace of Versailles – reconstruction, on the model of his Vaux-le-Vicomte, as a place of fêtes
Saint-Louis-en-l'Île church (on the Île Saint-Louis) (1664) – plans
Collège des Quatre-Nations (now the Institut de France) – for Mazarin

Claude Perrault (1613–1688) – responsible for establishing French classicism

Colonnade of the Louvre, designed by Perrault

Colonnade of the Louvre (1667–1673)
Observatoire de Paris – plans

Libéral Bruant (c. 1636–1697)

Hôtel de la Salpêtrière (1660–1677)
Les Invalides (1671–1676)

Hardouin-Mansart's chapel at Les Invalides

Jules Hardouin Mansart (Jules Hardouin; he adopted the name Mansart in 1668) (1646–1708) – responsible for the massive expansion of the palace of Versailles into a permanent royal residence.

Palace of Versailles (from 1678) – Royal Stables, Orangerie, Grand Trianon, Chapel
Palace of Saint-Cloud – for the Philip I, Duke of Orléans
Château of Marly
Domed chapel of Les Invalides
Place des Victoires
Place Vendôme
Château de Meudon

Robert de Cotte (1656–1735) – brother-in-law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects

Esplanade of Les Invalides

Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782) – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles

Palace of Versailles (1735–1777) – apartment of the king, Versailles Opera, Library, Petit Trianon (1762–1764)
Place de la Concorde (Place Louis XV)
École Militaire (1751–1775)

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780)

The Panthéon (called the Eglise Sainte Geneviève) (1756–1780)

Palais-Royal entrance front by Moreau-Desproux

Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797)

Various chateaux in the Limoges and the Limousin region

Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793)

Rue St. Honoré facade of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1770)

Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)

Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806) – famous for his mathematical neoclassicism.

Wall of the Farmers-General (1784–1791) – visible at the Place de la Nation and Denfert-Rochereau
Hôtel d'Hallwyl (remodel)
Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans (Les Salines Royales)

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826)

Revolution to World War II

Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) – famous for his use of steel

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (1843–1861)
National Library

Victor Baltard (1805–1874) – famous for his use of steel and glass

Les Halles centrales (1854–1870) – destroyed in 1971 to make way for a shopping mall
St. Eustache (church) – remodel
St. Etienne du Mont (church) – remodel
St. Augustin (church) (1860–1871)

Garnier's Paris Opera

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) – important theoretician of the 19th-century Gothic revival

Château de Pierrefonds – restoration
Notre Dame de Paris – restoration
the city of Carcassonne – restoration
Saint-Germain-des-Prés (church) – restoration
Saint Séverin (church) – restoration

Charles Garnier (1825–1898) – celebrated architect of the Second Empire

Palais Garnier, also known as the Paris Opera (now Opera Garnier) (1862–1875)
Théâtre Marigny
Casino of Monte Carlo (1878)

Clair Tisseur (1827–1896), Romanesque Revival architect and designer

Église du Bon-Pasteur, Lyon (1875–1883)

Frantz Jourdain (1847–1935) – Art Nouveau architect and theorist

La Samaritaine, Paris (1903-1907)

Eugène Vallin (1856–1922) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy

Vallin House and Studio (with Georges Biet) (1896)
Vaxelaire Department Store (with Emile André) (1901)
Biet Apartment House (with Georges Biet) (1902)
Société Générale Bank/Aimé Apartment House (with Georges Biet) (1904–1906)
École de Nancy Pavilion, Exposition Internationale de l'Est de la France (1909)

Lucien Weissenburger (1860–1929) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy

Magasins Réunis (department store), Nancy (1890–1907)
Villa Majorelle, Nancy (with Henri Sauvage) (1898–1901)
Imprimerie Royer (printing house), Nancy (1899–1900)
Brenas Apartment House, Nancy (1902)
Bergeret House, Nancy (1904)
Weissenburger House, Nancy (1904–1906)
Brasserie Excelsior and Angleterre Hotel, Nancy (with Alexandre Mienville) (1911)
Vaxelaire, Pignot, and Company Department Store, Nancy (1913)

Hector Guimard (1867–1942) – Art nouveau architect and designer

Émile André (1871–1933) – Art nouveau architect, urbanist and artist, member of the École de Nancy