Jean-Baptiste Lepère

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Jean-Baptiste Lepère (1761-1844) was a French architect, father in law of the architect Jacques Hittorff. He was the creator of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church, Paris, and one of the architects who worked on raising the colonne Vendôme.

Bonaparte took Lepère with him to Egypt to see if Napoleon's planned project of linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea across the Nile delta could be realised and if the difference in sea level between the two was sufficiently small to make such a canal possible. Whilst there, he also produced drawings of ancient Egyptian temples and other remains.