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Robert de Cotte

1656 - 1735

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Robert de Cotte (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ də kɔt]; 1656 – 15 July 1735) was a French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France from 1699, the earliest notes presaging the Rococo style were introduced. First a pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, he later became his brother-in-law and his collaborator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert de Cotte has received more than 50,358 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Robert de Cotte is the 231st most popular architect (up from 234th in 2019), the 2,568th most popular biography from France (down from 2,559th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Robert de Cotte ranks 231 out of 518. Before him are Giuseppe Terragni, Carlo Rainaldi, Jean Prouvé, Alexey Shchusev, Konstantin Melnikov, and Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann. After him are Friedrich von Schmidt, Tony Garnier, Adolf Meyer, Pirro Ligorio, Luciano Laurana, and Archibald Leitch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Robert de Cotte ranks 9. Before him are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, and Guillaume Dubois. After him are Kateri Tekakwitha, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Guru Har Krishan, Ferdinand de Marsin, François Le Fort, and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1735, Robert de Cotte ranks 9. Before him are Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Maria Clementina Sobieska, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, and Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje. After him are Carlo Ruzzini, Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Petr Brandl, Johann Krieger, Peter Artedi, and George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Robert de Cotte ranks 2,568 out of 6,770. Before him are Alfred Loisy (1857), Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713), Jean-Pierre Raffarin (1948), Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903), Charles Vanel (1892), and Jean Raspail (1925). After him are Martine Aubry (1950), Jean-Loup Chrétien (1938), Abraham Bosse (1604), Léon Boëllmann (1862), Charles Plumier (1646), and Honoré III, Prince of Monaco (1720).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Robert de Cotte ranks 31. Before him are Paul Andreu (1938), Henri Labrouste (1801), Jacques Lemercier (1585), Quatremère de Quincy (1755), Matthias of Arras (1290), and Jean Prouvé (1901). After him are Tony Garnier (1869), Édouard André (1840), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Libéral Bruant (1636), Salomon de Brosse (1571), and Charles Percier (1764).

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