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Étienne-Louis Boullée

1728 - 1799

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Étienne-Louis Boullée (12 February 1728 – 4 February 1799) was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne-Louis Boullée has received more than 383,289 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Étienne-Louis Boullée is the 106th most popular architect (down from 92nd in 2019), the 1,178th most popular biography from France (down from 993rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Architect.

Étienne-Louis Boullée is most famous for his design for a cenotaph in the form of an Egyptian pyramid.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Étienne-Louis Boullée ranks 106 out of 424Before him are Claude Perrault, Pierre Lescot, Pier Luigi Nervi, Auguste Perret, Eileen Gray, and César Pelli. After him are Lúcio Costa, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Hannes Meyer, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Étienne-Louis Boullée ranks 9Before him are Joseph Black, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Anton Raphael Mengs, Chevalier d'Éon, Niccolò Piccinni, and Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden. After him are Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Robert Adam, Antoine Baumé, Samuel Wallis, Shah Alam II, and Ali Bey al-Kabir. Among people deceased in 1799, Étienne-Louis Boullée ranks 14Before him are Lazzaro Spallanzani, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Heshen, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, and Victoire of France. After him are Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Jan Ingenhousz, Jean-Charles de Borda, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Jean-François Marmontel, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne-Louis Boullée ranks 1,178 out of 6,011Before him are Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780), Jean Mabillon (1632), James II of Majorca (1243), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Antipope Gregory VIII (1100), and Desireless (1952). After him are Nicolas Chamfort (1741), Christophe Plantin (1520), Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse (1678), Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (1401), Johannes Tauler (1300), and Comtessa de Dia (1175).

Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Étienne-Louis Boullée ranks 15Before him are Hector Guimard (1867), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), Claude Perrault (1613), and Pierre Lescot (1515). After him are Lúcio Costa (1902), Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713), Paul Abadie (1812), Philibert de l'Orme (1514), and Jean Chalgrin (1739).