Jean-François Blondel

Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was a French architect.

Biography
Born in Rouen, Blondel was admitted in the Académie d'architecture in 1728.

He was the master and uncle of Jacques-François. He also had another nephew as a student, Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe, whom he took in his agency on his return from Rome.

Main realisations

 * Maison Mallet, Geneva, 1724.
 * Maison de Saussure, Creux de Genthod, 1724-1730.
 * Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix, 1736-1740
 * Palais des Consuls (Rouen), 1741-1747 (destroyed in 1944)
 * Hôtel des gardes du Roi, Versailles, 1750-1754