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Charles Garnier

1825 - 1898

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Jean-Louis Charles Garnier (pronounced [ʃaʁl ɡaʁnje]; 6 November 1825 – 3 August 1898) was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Garnier is the 75th most popular architect (down from 65th in 2019), the 935th most popular biography from France (down from 810th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Architect.

Charles Garnier is most famous for being the architect of the Paris Opera House.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Charles Garnier ranks 75 out of 518. Before him are Josef Hoffmann, François Mansart, Mario Botta, Ustad Ahmad Lahori, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, and Guarino Guarini. After him are Albert Speer, Peter Parler, Sebastiano Serlio, Claude Perrault, Vincenzo Scamozzi, and Erich Mendelsohn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Charles Garnier ranks 9. Before him are Thomas Henry Huxley, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Ferdinand Lassalle, Jean-Martin Charcot, Johann Jakob Balmer, and Julia, Princess of Battenberg. After him are Charles Frederick Worth, Paul Kruger, Henry Walter Bates, Eduard Hanslick, Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, and Emil Erlenmeyer. Among people deceased in 1898, Charles Garnier ranks 11. Before him is Johann Jakob Balmer. After him are Ferdinand Cohn, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Eleanor Marx, Félicien Rops, Theodor Fontane, John Newlands, Syed Ahmad Khan, Henry Bessemer, Aubrey Beardsley, Heungseon Daewongun, and William Ewart Gladstone.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Garnier ranks 935 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Lelouch (1937), François Clouet (1510), René Clément (1913), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Rosa Bonheur (1822), and Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902). After him are Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011), Lucile Randon (1904), and Didier Deschamps (1968).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Charles Garnier ranks 9. Before him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Jean Nouvel (1945), Louis Le Vau (1612), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), François Mansart (1598), and Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646). After him are Claude Perrault (1613), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), Hector Guimard (1867), Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), and Lúcio Costa (1902).

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