Jacques Gondouin de Folleville, or simply Gondouin (7 June 1737 – 29 December 1818) was a French architect and designer. He was born in

Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (; literally "Audoin (bishop), St. Audoin on Seine") is a Communes of France, commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris. It is part of the Seine-Saint-Denis Department ...

, the son of a gardener at the

château de Choisy The Château de Choisy was a royal French residence in the commune of Choisy-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne department, not far from Paris. The commune was given its present name by Louis XV, when he purchased the manor of Choisy and its château in ...

. He died in Paris, aged 81.

Main projects

* High altar, cathédrale de

Noyon Noyon (; ; , Noviomagus of the Viromandui, Veromandui, then ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Oise Departments of France, department, Northern France. Geography Noyon lies on the river Oise (river), Oise, about northeast of Paris. The ...

(1777–1779)

Paris

École de Chirurgie École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

, today the Faculté de Médecine, , (1771–1786). * Interior decor at the Hôtel du Garde-Meuble (also known as Hôtel de la Marine),

Place de la Concorde The Place de la Concorde (; ) is a public square in Paris, France. Measuring in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées. It was the s ...

, 1775. *

Colonne Vendôme Colonne () is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Jura department The following is a list of the 492 communes of the Jura department of France. The co ...

to the glory of the

Grande Armée The (; ) was the primary field army of the French Imperial Army (1804–1815), French Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Commanded by Napoleon, from 1804 to 1808 it won a series of military victories that allowed the First French Empi ...

Place Vendôme The Place Vendôme (), earlier known as the Place Louis-le-Grand, and also as the Place Internationale, is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madelein ...

, 1806–1810.

Works

* ''Description des Écoles de Chirurgie'', Paris, Pierres, Cellot et Jombert, 1780, gr. in-folio de 18 pp.ch., 1 f.n.ch., 1 front. par Gibelin et 30 pl. la plupart dépl. par C.R.G. Poulleau. Tiré à 100 ex. sur papier fort à l'occasion de l'inauguration de l'École de Chirurgie.

Bibliography

* Christian Baulez, "Le projet d'installation de Napoléon à Versailles. De Gondoin à Fontaine", ''Versalia'', n° 9, mars 2006, pp. 14–22. * D. Bilodeau, "Types et

historicism Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying the process or history by which they came about. The term is widely used in philosophy, ant ...

e : l'École de Chirurgie de Jacques Gondoin et l'émergence d'une conception généalogique de l'architecture en France au XVIIIe siècle" in ''L'Architecture, les sciences et la culture de l'histoire au XIXe siècle en France'', Les Entretiens Jacques-Cartier, December 1997, Publication de l'Université de Saint-Étienne. pp 131–144. * Géraldine Defives, ''Recherches sur l'architecte Jacques Gondoin (1737–1818)'', Maîtrise d'histoire de l'art, Université Paris X-Nanterre, 1996, 2 vol. dactylographiés. * Jean-Jacques Gautier, "Jacques Gondouin, architecte et dessinateur du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne", ''L'Estampille'', November 1992, n° 263, pp. 58–66. * M. Plouvier, "Jacques Gondoin et le maître autel de la cathédrale de Noyon", ''Société archéologique, historique et scientifique de Noyon'', Comptes rendus et mémoires, 1990, vol. 36, p. 201–223.

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