Jean-Baptiste Rondelet

Jean-Baptiste Rondelet

Born	(1743-06-04)June 4, 1743^[1] Lyon, France^[1]
Died	September 25, 1829(1829-09-25) (aged 86)^[1] Paris, France^[1]
Nationality	French
Occupation	Architect

Buildings	Church of Sainte-Geneviève

Jean-Baptiste Rondelet (4 June 1743 – 25 September 1829) was an architectural theorist of the late Enlightenment era and chief architect of the church of Sainte-Geneviève after the death of Jacques Germain Soufflot of cancer in 1780.

Rondelet published a treatise on architecture between 1805 and 1816.

References

1 2 3 4 Charvet, Léon (1899). Architectes: notices biographiques et bibliographiques avec une table des édifices et la liste chronologique des noms. Bernoux & Cumin. pp. 436 pages.

Frangsmyr, Tore, J. L. Heilbron & Robin E. Rider (eds.), The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990.

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