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Victor Baltard

1805 - 1874

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Victor Baltard (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ baltaʁ]; 9 June 1805 – 13 January 1874) was a French architect famed for work in Paris including designing Les Halles market and the Saint-Augustin church. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Baltard is the 391st most popular architect (down from 378th in 2019), the 4,179th most popular biography from France (down from 4,109th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Victor Baltard ranks 391 out of 518Before him are Georges Candilis, Mihály Pollack, Mario Bellini, Kadir Topbaş, Lorenzo Gafà, and Alberto Palacio. After him are Ron Arad, John Hejduk, Anastasios Metaxas, Clemens Holzmeister, Adolf Lang, and Shelley McNamara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Victor Baltard ranks 62Before him are Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Hugo von Mohl, José Ballivián, Manuel García, and Rudolf Wagner. After him are Tomás Villalba, Alexander Burnes, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, William Lloyd Garrison, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, and Josef Danhauser. Among people deceased in 1874, Victor Baltard ranks 45Before him are Vilém Blodek, Jules Janin, Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Jean Cruveilhier, Heinrich von Kittlitz, and Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt. After him are Robert Edmond Grant, John Phillips, Richard Thomas Lowe, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Sylvain Van de Weyer, and Charles-Mathias Simons.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Baltard ranks 4,179 out of 6,770Before him are Johann Carolus (1575), Georges Courteline (1858), Pierre Daninos (1913), Pierre Dartout (1954), Moungi Bawendi (1961), and Mathieu Valbuena (1984). After him are Guy Patin (1601), Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719), Jean Petit (1949), Jean Bouin (1888), Virginie Ancelot (1792), and Benoît Magimel (1974).

Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Victor Baltard ranks 42Before him are Salomon de Brosse (1571), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Libéral Bruant (1636), Dominique Perrault (1953), Victor Laloux (1850), and Alberto Palacio (1856). After him are Auguste de Montferrand (1786), Daniel Marot (1661), Victor Louis (1731), Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe (1729), and Anne Lacaton (1955).