Charles David (1552 – 4 December 1650) was a 16th/17th-century French

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

. He married Anne Lemercier, daughter of architect Nicolas Lemercier in 1582 and succeeded his father-in-law as architect of the church of

Saint-Eustache, Paris The Church of St. Eustache, Paris (french: église Saint-Eustache) is a church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The present building was built between 1532 and 1632. Situated near the site of Paris' medieval marketplace (Les Halles) and rue ...

in 1585. David was responsible for the construction of the

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, which was completed in 1637. According to Paluster he was interred at St.-Eustache, with the epitaph (since effaced):

Ici gist le corps d'honorable homme Charles David vivant juré du Roy es oeuvres de maçonnerie doyen des jurés et bourgeois de Paris architecte et conducteur du batiment de l'eglize de ceans lequel apres avoir vecu vec Anne Lemercier sa femme l'espace de cincquante ans est decédé le 4 jour de December 1650 agé quatrevingt dix-huit ans

He was succeeded at Saint-Eustache by

Jean Mansart de Jouy Jean Mansart de Jouy (1705, Paris – 1783) was a French architect. He was also known as Mansart the Elder (''Mansart l'Aîné''). He and his younger brother, Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, were both bastard sons of Jacques Hardouin-Mansart ...

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