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Victor Baltard

1805 - 1874

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Victor Baltard (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ baltaʁ]; 9 June 1805 – 13 January 1874) was a French architect famed for work in Paris including designing Les Halles market and the Saint-Augustin church. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Baltard has received more than 49,102 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Victor Baltard is the 378th most popular architect (down from 361st in 2019), the 4,109th most popular biography from France (down from 3,803rd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Victor Baltard ranks 378 out of 518. Before him are Victor Laloux, Auguste de Montferrand, Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Lipót Baumhorn, Clemens Holzmeister, and Jan Wils. After him are Diébédo Francis Kéré, Jaap Bakema, Alessandro Antonelli, Alberto Palacio, Shelley McNamara, and Kaare Klint.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Victor Baltard ranks 57. Before him are Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Johann Eduard Erdmann, Mary Seacole, Esteban Echeverría, William Lloyd Garrison, and Johann von Lamont. After him are Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Hugo von Mohl, Josef Danhauser, Eugène Devéria, and John O. Westwood. Among people deceased in 1874, Victor Baltard ranks 41. Before him are Jules Janin, Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Heinrich von Kittlitz, John Phillips, and Fritz Reuter. After him are Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, Vilém Blodek, Jean Cruveilhier, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Charles-Mathias Simons, and Sylvain Van de Weyer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Baltard ranks 4,109 out of 6,770. Before him are Jérôme Le Banner (1972), Jean Philippe (1931), Henri François d'Aguesseau (1668), Eugène Lanti (1879), François Remetter (1928), and François Sudre (1787). After him are Andrée Brunet (1901), Roger Lapébie (1911), Louis Vicat (1786), Louis Hémon (1880), Gabrielle Réjane (1856), and Henri Laurent (1881).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Victor Baltard ranks 42. Before him are Salomon de Brosse (1571), Charles Percier (1764), Dominique Perrault (1953), Henri Dupuy de Lôme (1816), Victor Laloux (1850), and Auguste de Montferrand (1786). After him are Alberto Palacio (1856), Victor Louis (1731), Daniel Marot (1661), Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe (1729), and Anne Lacaton (1955).

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