Simon Maupin (; before 1625 in

Longueau Longueau (; ) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography Longueau is situated southeast of Amiens, a suburb just by the airport, on the N29 road. Longueau station has rail connections to Amiens, Crei ...

- 10 October 1668 in

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) was a French

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Biography

In 1625, he engraved his ''Plan de Lyon''.''Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours'', Hoefer (Jean Chrétien Ferdinand), Firmin Didot frères (Paris), p 394 He became famous when he drew up the plans of the Hôtel de Ville de Lyon, built between 1646 and 1651. It was presumed that he only executed a project made by

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, but it seems he took his orders from the consular advice. In 1654, he drew up the plans of work to be done to restore the old dam built along the left bank of the

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, near the

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. In 1659, he was appointed intendant of dikes and works done on the Rhone. In 1659, his plan of Lyon entitled ''Description au naturel de la ville de Lyon et païsages alentour d'icelle'' was published. In 1661, for unknown reasons, he resigned from his post as road inspector and died seven years later, in Lyon.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maupin, Simon 1668 deaths 17th-century French architects People from Somme (department) Year of birth uncertain Architects from Lyon