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    Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (1739 – 21 January 1811) was a French architect, best known for his design for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris. His neoclassic...
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    the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806; its iconographic programme pits heroically nude French youths...
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    Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled...
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    resigned to study, from 1770 to 1774, architecture, partly in Paris with Jean Chalgrin. His opportune assistance to two German nobles in a tavern brawl obtained...
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    neighboring religious order of the Carthusian monks. The architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, took on the task of restoring...
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    for his 1833 continuation of the Arc de Triomphe from the plans of Jean Chalgrin. Son of a builder, Huyot attended the École nationale supérieure des...
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    Ledoux (1736–1806) and Jean-François Chalgrin (1739–1811); painters included Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) and his pupil, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres...
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    Napoleon Bonaparte, the grotto was restored by the neoclassical architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, who replaced the simple water...
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    who erected twin towers to Servandoni's design. Servandoni's pupil Jean Chalgrin rebuilt the north tower (1777–1780), making it taller and modifying...
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    in teaching other important architects such as Jean Chalgrin, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand. Some of his work only saw...
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    Soufflot, and the Church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule (1765–1777) by Jean Chalgrin, which featured an enormous barrel-vaulted nave. Hotel de la Marine...
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    head. On the four corners of the pedestal, designed by Jean Chalgrin, are bronze statues by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, depicting the virtues of great monarchs;...
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    and 1836, the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile was built to the design of Jean Chalgrin. It was originally commissioned by Emperor Napoleon I during the First...
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    on March 18, 1799. An 1808 reconstruction of the theater designed by Jean Chalgrin (architect of the Arc de Triomphe) was officially named the Théâtre...
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  • Guanajuato, Mexico is completed. 1806 – Arc de Triomphe, Paris from Jean Chalgrin commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte. 1805 – The Ellesmere Canal, designed...
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    small rotunda of the Palais du Luxembourg (Senate), that the architect Jean Chalgrin was able to reuse. Le Château-Vieux de Meudon en ruines, en 1802. James...
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    complete it successfully. From 1807 to 1808, he worked with architect Jean Chalgrin, managing all the decorations for the Théâtre de l'Impératrice. The...
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    (1751–1780) by Ange-Jacques Gabriel The Arc de Triomphe (1806–1836) by Jean-François Chalgrin Palais Garnier (1861–1875) by Charles Garnier The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur...
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    Vernet and Virginia Parker. In 1776, she married the architect Jean-François Chalgrin, who won the Prix de Rome in 1758. Claude Joseph Vernet gave his...
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    the styles called Directoire and "Empire", might be characterized by Jean Chalgrin's severe astylar Arc de Triomphe (designed in 1806). In England the two...
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    Kokorinov and Ivan Starov, and then in Paris from 1782 to 1786 with Jean Chalgrin. In 1794, he became a full Academician at the Petersburg Academy of...
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    was named Chief Architect for the Palais du Louvre. In 1806, he and Jean Chalgrin were placed in charge of planning the Arc de Triomphe, but the incompatibility...
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    great-uncle Jean-Baptiste-Augustin Beausire had formerly held the position. His position enabled him to influence the appointment of Jean Chalgrin to a place...
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  • the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte from Jean Chalgrin. Also this year a competition for design of a Temple de la Gloire de...
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  • neoclassicists on the Commission of Public Buildings, who dominated until 1850. Jean Chalgrin had designed Saint-Philippe de Role before the Revolution in a neoclassical...
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    listed as Historical Monuments. The facility was built by architect Jean Chalgrin between 1773 and 1776 on the camp des Fainénants, a vacant lot that...
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    in the style of Neoclassicism between 1774 and 1784 by architect Jean-François Chalgrin best known for his design of the Arc de Triomphe. It was enlarged...
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    leprosarium. It was replaced by a more important church, which was built by Jean Chalgrin between 1774 and 1784. The church of Saint-Philippe du Roule was built...
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  • d'une nuit (1931) as Jean d'Armont The Typist (1931) as Paul Derval Captain Craddock (1931) as Captain Craddock 77 Rue Chalgrin (1931) as Baron de Cléves...
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    the styles called Directoire and Empire, might be characterized by Jean Chalgrin's severe astylar Arc de Triomphe (designed in 1806). In England the two...
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