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André Le Nôtre

1613 - 1700

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André Le Nôtre (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃dʁe lə notʁ]; 12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was the landscape architect who designed the gardens of the Palace of Versailles; his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin à la française. Prior to working on Versailles, Le Nôtre collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Le Nôtre has received more than 695,284 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). André Le Nôtre is the 29th most popular architect (up from 35th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from France (up from 494th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Architect.

André le nôtre is most famous for being the architect of the gardens of Versailles.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, André Le Nôtre ranks 29 out of 518. Before him are Otto Wagner, Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, Victor Horta, Santiago Calatrava, and Henry van de Velde. After him are Adolf Loos, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Peter Behrens, Carlo Maderno, Ictinus, and Tadao Ando.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1613, André Le Nôtre ranks 3. Before him are François de La Rochefoucauld, and Gerrit Dou. After him are Claude Perrault, John George II, Elector of Saxony, Mattia Preti, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Khushal Khattak, and Luisa de Guzmán. Among people deceased in 1700, André Le Nôtre ranks 3. Before him are Charles II of Spain, and Pope Innocent XII. After him are John Dryden, Do-Aklin, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Marguerite Bourgeoys, Louis Jolliet, Rajaram I, and Silvestro Valier.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Le Nôtre ranks 432 out of 6,770. Before him are Giambologna (1529), Eugène François Vidocq (1775), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Alfred Binet (1857), Jean Dubuffet (1901), and Odilon Redon (1840). After him are Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Jean Monnet (1888), Henri Moissan (1852), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Robert Campin (1375), and Robert Delaunay (1885).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, André Le Nôtre ranks 2. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809). After him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Jean Nouvel (1945), Louis Le Vau (1612), François Mansart (1598), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Charles Garnier (1825), Pierre Lescot (1515), Hector Guimard (1867), and Claude Perrault (1613).

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