The following is a chronological list of French architects. Some of their major architectural works are listed after each name.
Middle Ages Étienne de Bonneuil (late 13th century) Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden
Jean de Chelles (13th century) Notre Dame de Paris
Pierre de Montreuil (–1266) Notre Dame de Paris the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés Saint Denis Basilica
Matthias of Arras (?–1352) Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague
Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plans
Pierre d'Angicourt (late 13th century)
Lucera castle
Pierre de Chaule (late 13th century)
Castel Nuovo
Renaissance to Revolution Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau () Important book of architectural engravings
Philibert Delorme (or De L'Orme) (1510/1515–1570) Chateau d'Anet () – for Diane de Poitiers Tuileries Palace (1564–1567)
Pierre Lescot (1515–1578) Louvre Palace (Lescot Wing, 1546) – for Francis I and Henry II Hôtel Carnavalet (attributed, begun 1547) Fontaine des Innocents (1550) – carved by Jean Goujon
Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (–1590) Pont Neuf (1599) – for Henry IV
Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau (–1614) Grande Galerie du Louvre Pavillon de Flore (Tuileries)
Salomon de Brosse (1575–1626) Luxembourg Palace (1615) – for Marie de' Medici St. Gervais church (facade) (1616) Château de Blérancourt Palais de Justice in Rennes (1618)
Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585–1649) Hôtel de Sully (1624–1629)
Jacques Lemercier (1585–1654) – active for Richelieu Palais-Cardinal (1632) – for Richelieu Château de Richelieu City of Richelieu (from 1631) La Sorbonne church (1635) – for Richelieu Pavillon de l'Horloge (Louvre) St. Roch church Abbaye du Val-de-Grâce (1646–1653, further construction)
François Mansart (1598–1666) Château de Blois (1635–1638) Abbaye du Val-de-Grâce (1643–1646, plans and initial construction) – for Anne d'Autriche (Anne of Austria) Château de Maisons (1642–1646) Hôtel de Guénégaud (1648–1651) Hôtel Carnavalet (1655) remodel Hôtel d'Aumont remodel after Louis Le Vau
Louis Le Vau (1612–1670) Apollo wing of the Louvre Hôtel Lambert (1640) Vaux-le-Vicomte (1656) – for Nicolas Fouquet; this was to be the prototype of the Palace of Versailles Hôtel de Lauzun (1657) Château de Vincennes (1659) – for Mazarin Palace of Versailles – reconstruction, on the model of his Vaux-le-Vicomte, as a place of fêtes Saint-Louis-en-l'Île church (on the Île Saint-Louis) (1664) plans Collège des Quatre-Nations (now the Institut de France) – for Mazarin
Claude Perrault (1613–1688) – helped to establish French classicism
Colonnade of the Louvre (1667–1673) Observatoire de Paris – plans
Libéral Bruant (c. 1636–1697) Hôtel de la Salpêtrière (1660–1677) Les Invalides (1671–1676)
Jules Hardouin Mansart (Jules Hardouin; he adopted the name Mansart in 1668) (1646–1708) – responsible for the massive expansion of the palace of Versailles into a permanent royal residence. Palace of Versailles (from 1678) Royal Stables, Orangerie, Grand Trianon, Chapel Palace of Saint-Cloud – for the Philip I, Duke of Orléans Château of Marly Domed chapel of Les Invalides Place des Victoires Place Vendôme Château de Meudon
Pierre Lassurance (1655–1724) Château de Petit-Bourg
Robert de Cotte (1656–1735) brother-in-law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects Esplanade of Les Invalides Palais Rohan, Strasbourg
Germain Boffrand (1667–1754) Château Lunéville Remodelling of the Petit Luxembourg Interiors at the Hôtel de Soubise
Pierre-Alexis Delamair (1675/6–1745) Hôtel de Soubise Hôtel de Rohan
Jean Aubert (c. 1680–1741) Stables of the Château de Chantilly Hôtel Biron Palais Bourbon
Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782) – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles Palace of Versailles (1735–1777) apartment of the king, Versailles Opera, Library, Petit Trianon (1762–1764) Place de la Concorde (Place Louis XV) École Militaire (1751–1775)
Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780) The Panthéon (called the Eglise Sainte Geneviève) (1756–1780)
Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793) Rue St. Honoré facade of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1770) Second Salle du Palais-Royal, first purpose-built opera house in Paris
Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799) Hôtel Alexandre
Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797) Various chateaux in the Limoges and the Limousin region
Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806) – famous for his mathematical neoclassicism. Wall of the Farmers-General (1784–1791) – visible at the Place de la Nation and Denfert-Rochereau Hôtel d'Hallwyl (remodel) Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans (Les Salines Royales)
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826)
Revolution to World War II Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) – famous for his use of steel Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (1843–1861) National Library
Victor Baltard (1805–1874) – famous for his use of steel and glass Les Halles centrales (1854–1870) – destroyed in 1971 to make way for a shopping mall St. Eustache (church) – remodel Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (church) – remodel St. Augustin (church) (1860–1871)
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) – important theoretician of the 19th-century Gothic revival Château de Pierrefonds – restoration Notre Dame de Paris – restoration the city of Carcassonne – restoration Saint-Germain-des-Prés (church) – restoration Saint Séverin (church) – restoration
Charles Garnier (1825–1898) – celebrated architect of the Second Empire Palais Garnier, also known as the Paris Opera (now Opera Garnier) (1862–1875) Théâtre Marigny Casino of Monte Carlo (1878)
Clair Tisseur (1827–1896), Romanesque Revival architect and designer Église du Bon-Pasteur, Lyon (1875–1883)
Frantz Jourdain (1847–1935) – Art Nouveau architect and theorist La Samaritaine, Paris (1903–1907) Auguste Louzier Sainte-Anne (1848–1925) – Chief architect of historic monuments
Eugène Vallin (1856–1922) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy Vallin House and Studio (with Georges Biet) (1896) Vaxelaire Department Store (with Emile André) (1901) Biet Apartment House (with Georges Biet) (1902) Société Générale Bank/Aimé Apartment House (with Georges Biet) (1904–1906) École de Nancy Pavilion, Exposition Internationale de l'Est de la France (1909)
Lucien Weissenburger (1860–1929) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy Magasins Réunis (department store), Nancy (1890–1907) Villa Majorelle, Nancy (with Henri Sauvage) (1898–1901) Imprimerie Royer (printing house), Nancy (1899–1900) Brenas Apartment House, Nancy (1902) Bergeret House, Nancy (1904) Weissenburger House, Nancy (1904–1906) Brasserie Excelsior and Angleterre Hotel, Nancy (with Alexandre Mienville) (1911) Vaxelaire, Pignot, and Company Department Store, Nancy (1913)
Hector Guimard (1867–1942) – Art nouveau architect and designer
Émile André (1871–1933) – Art nouveau architect, urbanist and artist, member of the École de Nancy Vaxelaire Department Store, Nancy (with Eugène Vallin) (1901) Parc de Saurupt, Nancy (garden-city), designer (with Henri Gutton) (1901–1906) Maisons Huot, Nancy (1903) France-Lanord Apartment Building, Nancy (1902–1903) Lombard Apartment Building, Nancy (1902–1904) Renauld Bank, Nancy (with Paul Charbonnier) (1908–1910) Ducret Apartment Building, Nancy (with Paul Charbonnier) (1908–1910)
Auguste Perret (1874–1954) and his brothers Claude and Gustave – important for the first use of reinforced concrete Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Paul Tournon (1881–1964)
Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886–1945) – modernist architect influenced by Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) (1887–1965)
Léon Azéma (1888–1978) – appointed Architect of the City of Paris in 1928 Douaumont ossuary (1932)
Eugène Beaudouin (1898–1983) – influential use of prefabricated elements
Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) – international style/Bauhaus-inspired
François Spoerry (1912–1999) Grimaud, Var, France Puerto Escondido, Baja California Sur, Mexico Port Liberté, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States Bendinat, Mallorca, Spain Saifi Village, Beirut, Lebanon
Post World War II
Christian de Portzamparc (born 1944) La Villette City of Music Café Beaubourg
Henry Bernard (1912–94) Palace of Europe
Jean-Marie Charpentier Shanghai Grand Theatre
Pascale Guédot (born 1960) Médiathèque at Oloron-Sainte-Marie (Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent)
Michel Mossessian Five Merchant Square in London, UK NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium ExxonMobil Technology Centre in Shanghai, China
Jean Nouvel (born 1945) Institut du Monde Arabe Fondation Cartier Torre Agbar, in Barcelona, Spain Musée du quai Branly
Fernand Pouillon (1912–1986)
Old Port of Marseille Tabriz railway station Résidence Salmson Le Point du Jour Chateau de Belcastel
Roger Taillibert Parc des Princes in Paris Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Olympic Velodrome, Montreal (now called the Montreal Biodome) Olympic Pool (Montreal)
Michel Pinseau Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco
Philippe Ameller and Jacques Dubois Eurotunnel in Calais ISIPCA in Versailles Centre de la petite enfance in Issy-les-Moulineaux Lycée Louis-Armand in Eaubonne Police station in Provins
Florent Nédélec, DPLG The Jervois Hong Kong Yong He Yuan Taiwan
Philippe Maidenberg 123 Sebastopol (2011–2013) Joyce Hotel (2008–2009) Bel Ami (2012) Triangle D'Or (2009–2010) Hotel 34 B (2014–2015)
See also
French Baroque architecture List of architects List of French people