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Charles Percier

1764 - 1838

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Charles Percier ([ʃaʁl pɛʁsje]; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. For work undertaken from 1794 onward, trying to ascribe conceptions or details to one or other of them is fruitless; it is impossible to disentangle their cooperative efforts in this fashion. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich, grand, consciously-archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognise as Directoire style and Empire style. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Percier is the 275th most popular architect (up from 295th in 2019), the 3,056th most popular biography from France (up from 3,229th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Charles Percier ranks 275 out of 518. Before him are William Kent, László Hudec, Miklós Ybl, Pieter Post, Domenico Trezzini, and Friedrich August Stüler. After him are Salomon de Bray, Salomon de Brosse, Marian Spychalski, Josep Maria Jujol, Kengo Kuma, and William Chambers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Charles Percier ranks 20. Before him are Johann Gottfried Schadow, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Andrés Manuel del Río, Sophie de Condorcet, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, and Dorothea von Schlegel. After him are Gustav Hugo, Jens Baggesen, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Valentino Fioravanti, János Bihari, and Sidney Smith. Among people deceased in 1838, Charles Percier ranks 19. Before him are Frédéric Cuvier, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Ferdinand Ries, Hussein Dey, Bernhard Crusell, and René Caillié. After him are Heinrich Marx, Black Hawk, Joseph Lancaster, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, José Bonifácio de Andrada, and Jędrzej Śniadecki.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Percier ranks 3,056 out of 6,770. Before him are Félix Gaillard (1919), Henri Helle (1873), Émilie de Villeneuve (1811), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Henri Laurens (1885), and Marcel L'Herbier (1888). After him are Jean-Louis Forain (1852), Nasreddine Dinet (1861), Pierre Vernier (1580), Raymond Sommer (1906), Louis Buffet (1818), and Charles Tournemire (1870).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Charles Percier ranks 35. Before him are François Blondel (1618), Jean Prouvé (1901), Henri Dupuy de Lôme (1816), Henri Labrouste (1801), Édouard André (1840), and Tony Garnier (1869). After him are Salomon de Brosse (1571), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Libéral Bruant (1636), Dominique Perrault (1953), Victor Laloux (1850), and Alberto Palacio (1856).

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