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Jacques-François Blondel

1705 - 1774

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Jacques-François Blondel (8 January 1705 – 9 January 1774) was an 18th-century French architect and teacher. After running his own highly successful school of architecture for many years, he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the Académie Royale d'Architecture in 1762, and his Cours d'architecture ("Course of Architecture", 1771–1777) largely superseded a similarly titled book published in 1675 by his famous namesake, François Blondel, who had occupied the same post in the late 17th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques-François Blondel is the 148th most popular architect (up from 168th in 2019), the 1,811th most popular biography from France (up from 1,985th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 148 out of 518. Before him are Antonio Sant'Elia, Ettore Sottsass, Fumihiko Maki, Ludwig Borchardt, Camillo Sitte, and Dinocrates. After him are Hans Vredeman de Vries, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Gottfried Böhm, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Mikhail Eisenstein, and Jacques-Germain Soufflot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 7. Before him are Pope Clement XIV, Farinelli, Leopold Joseph von Daun, Karim Khan Zand, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, and Charles-André van Loo. After him are David Hartley, Peter Artedi, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, and Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Among people deceased in 1774, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 9. Before him are Robert Clive, François Quesnay, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Niccolò Jommelli, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, and Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken. After him are Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, and Johann Friedrich Agricola.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 1,811 out of 6,770. Before him are Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721), Jean de Meun (1240), David d'Angers (1788), Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (1874), Constant Troyon (1810), and Georg Muffat (1653). After him are Fulk I, Count of Anjou (870), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon (1844), Henri Michel (1947), Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle (1775), Pierre Cambronne (1770), and Fulk IV, Count of Anjou (1043).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Jacques-François Blondel ranks 19. Before him are Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), Lúcio Costa (1902), Pierre Lescot (1515), Philibert de l'Orme (1514), and Paul Abadie (1812). After him are Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728), Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713), Charlotte Perriand (1903), Jean Chalgrin (1739), Paul Andreu (1938), and Jacques Lemercier (1585).

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