List of French architects

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 (c. 1200–1266)
 * 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 (c. 1510)
 * Important book of architectural engravings

Philibert Delorme (or De L'Orme) (1510/1515–1570)
 * Chateau d'Anet (c. 1550) – 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 (c. 1545–1590)
 * Pont Neuf (1599) – for Henry IV

Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau (c. 1550–1614)
 * 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 Auguste Louzier Sainte-Anne (1848-1925) – Chief architect of historic monuments
 * La Samaritaine, Paris (1903-1907)

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, Majorca, 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 Jean Nouvel (born 1945) Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986)
 * Five Merchant Square in London, UK
 * NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
 * ExxonMobil Technology Centre in Shanghai, China
 * Institut du Monde Arabe
 * Fondation Cartier
 * Torre Agbar, in Barcelona, Spain
 * Musée du quai Branly


 * 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