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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 46,511 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Robert de Cotte is the 235th most popular architect (down from 199th in 2019), the 2,567th most popular biography from France (down from 2,144th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Robert de Cotte ranks 235 out of 424Before him are Aldo van Eyck, Josep Lluís Sert, Augustus Pugin, Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Adolf Meyer, and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder. After him are Kazuyo Sejima, Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Giacomo Quarenghi, Elissa Aalto, Charles Barry, and Luigi Vanvitelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Robert de Cotte ranks 8Before him are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Marin Marais, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Nicolas de Largillière. After him are Guillaume Dubois, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Kateri Tekakwitha, Ferdinand de Marsin, François Le Fort, and Guru Har Krishan. Among people deceased in 1735, Robert de Cotte ranks 9Before 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 Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Carlo Ruzzini, Johann Krieger, Peter Artedi, Petr Brandl, and George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Robert de Cotte ranks 2,567 out of 6,011Before him are Theobald I, Count of Blois (910), Antoine III de Gramont (1604), André Beauneveu (1330), Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809), Dany Boon (1966), and Charles Friedel (1822). After him are Théophile de Viau (1590), Bernard Plantapilosa (841), Armand Trousseau (1801), René Caillié (1799), Abraham Duquesne (1610), and Alain Connes (1947).

Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Robert de Cotte ranks 33Before him are François Blondel (1618), Jean Prouvé (1901), Matthias of Arras (1290), Quatremère de Quincy (1755), Paul Andreu (1938), and Charles Percier (1764). After him are Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Édouard André (1840), Salomon de Brosse (1571), Henri Dupuy de Lôme (1816), Dominique Perrault (1953), and Victor Laloux (1850).