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Jean Chalgrin

1739 - 1811

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Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (1739 – 21 January 1811) was a French architect, best known for his design for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Chalgrin has received more than 94,563 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jean Chalgrin is the 163rd most popular architect (up from 170th in 2019), the 1,866th most popular biography from France (down from 1,838th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jean Chalgrin ranks 163 out of 424. Before him are Joseph Paxton, Michael Ventris, Hermann Tilke, Juan de Herrera, Ur-Nanshe, and Jacobus Oud. After him are Fumihiko Maki, Charlotte Perriand, Kevin A. Lynch, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Gio Ponti, and Michele Sanmicheli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, Jean Chalgrin ranks 10. Before him are Charles François Dumouriez, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, George Clinton, Johann Baptist Wanhal, and Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Charles-François Lebrun, François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Jean-François de La Harpe, and Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1811, Jean Chalgrin ranks 7. Before him are Heinrich von Kleist, Peter Simon Pallas, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, and Dositej Obradović. After him are Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Ignacio Allende, Nevil Maskelyne, Marie-Joseph Chénier, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, and Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Chalgrin ranks 1,866 out of 6,011. Before him are Gaston, Count of Eu (1842), Sébastien Loeb (1974), Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635), Vladimir Posner (1934), Ermesinde of Carcassonne (972), and Adrien Manglard (1695). After him are Avitus of Vienne (450), Charles-François Lebrun (1739), Maurice Blondel (1861), Guillaume Cale (1350), Paul Nizan (1905), and Guy Mollet (1905).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Jean Chalgrin ranks 21. Before him are Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728), Lúcio Costa (1902), Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713), Paul Abadie (1812), and Philibert de l'Orme (1514). After him are Charlotte Perriand (1903), Tony Garnier (1869), Jacques-François Blondel (1705), Jacques Lemercier (1585), Henri Labrouste (1801), and François Blondel (1618).

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