• Jean-Antoine du Cerceau (12 November 1670 – 4 July 1730) was a French Jesuit priest, poet, playwright and man of letters. Du Cerceau taught at several...
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  • Jean Androuet du Cerceau (c.1585–1650) was a French architect, the son of Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau, the outstanding Parisian architect of his...
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  • Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (1544/47–1590) was a French architect who designed the Pont Neuf (1579), spanning the Seine, Paris, and became supervisor...
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    of Spain Jean Pierre de Caussade, spiritual director, college rector, and author of Abandonment to Divine Providence Jean-Antoine du Cerceau, French Jesuit...
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    Archived 19 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine Du Cerceau, Jean Antoine (2 August 1828). "Oeuvres de Du Cerceau, contenant son théâtre et ses poésies. Nouv...
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    Architect Jacques Lemercier won the design competition against Jean Androuet du Cerceau, Clément II Métezeau, and the son of Salomon de Brosse.: 8  The...
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    Paralympic cauldron. Plan for the palace and gardens by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, 1576–1579 Plan of the Tuileries garden in about 1589. The Louvre is to...
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  • Francis Garasse, Jesuit, preacher, polemicist and writer. (d. 1631) Jean Androuet du Cerceau, Architect (d. 1650) Claudine de Culam, Girl executed in 1601 for...
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    Jean-Pierre Castaldi (born 1 October 1944) is a French actor. He is the father of French TV presenter and radio host Benjamin Castaldi. 2000–2002 : Host...
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    1581. Pierre de La Ramée. Arithmeticae libri tres. 1555. Jean-Antoine de Baïf. Chant de joie du jour des espousailles de François, roi daufin, et de Marie...
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    Mesme Gallet. The building is usually attributed to the architect Jean Androuet du Cerceau. The site was chosen to give access to the Place Royale - today...
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    Lucien Boudot and Fernand Cerceau, Jacques Cartier est reçu par le chef Agouhana Alfred Faniel, Jacques Cartier sur le sommet du mont Royal Frank Craig,...
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    1555 for Jacques Groslot, "bailli d'Orléans" by Jacques Ier Androuet du Cerceau. King François II of France died there in 1560. Kings Charles IX, Henri...
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    attributed to Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1617) Alley of linden trees, some over 300 years old, in lower garden List of castles in France Le Guide du patrimoine...
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    architect Jean Bullant took over the project two years later. After Bullant's death in 1578, Baptiste du Cerceau led the work. Du Cerceau made minor...
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    its initial plan, perhaps devised by the royal architect, Androuet de Cerceau. While Henry had already allowed for piers to be driven for the northern...
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  • (1505/1510–after 1562), sculptor Jean Goujon (c. 1510 – c. 1565), sculptor Bernard Palissy (1510–1590), master potter Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1510–1585), architectural...
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    Lamamye. Hôtel du Vieux-Raisin. Influence of an engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau on the window shown above. Hôtel du Vieux-Raisin. Hôtel du Vieux-Raisin...
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  • Boffrand Étienne-Louis Boullée Salomon de Brosse Libéral Bruant Androuet du Cerceau family Le Corbusier pseudonym for Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Swiss-born)...
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    Mignard, by Debay fils [fr]; Jean Baptiste Massillon, by François Jouffroy; Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, by Georges Diebolt; Jean Goujon, by Bernard Seurre;...
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    Nicolas' son-in-law Charles David. Facade project by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (16th century - not built) The facade in the 17th century The church in...
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    materials and main dimensions laid down by the architects Jacques II Androuet du Cerceau and Claude Chastillon. On 29 March 1605 Henry wrote to Sully: My friend...
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    king's architect Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau,: 300  and construction work was led by one of the monks.: 483–486  Abbot Jean de La Barrière remained loyal...
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    Venetian ambassador, Giovanni Michiel, wrote that during the first dance, Antoine of Navarre whispered to him about controversy at the French court concerning...
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  • center of the gallery and was centerpiece of the commons. The plans of Du Cerceau shows a floored gallery with five arches leading to an open-air fixed...
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    from 1612. The Hotel de Sully at 62 rue Saint-Antoine (4th arr.) (1624–30) by Jean Androuet du Cerceau Detail of the decoration of the Hotel de Sully...
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    completed until 1788. 1647 Pont au Change rebuilt by architect Androuet du Cerceau. 1648 27 January – Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture founded...
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    of the chapel of the Trinity, and assigned the court architect Jean Androuet du Cerceau to reconstruct the horseshoe stairway earlier designed by Philibert...
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    and new gardens replacing the sixteenth-century parterres of Androuet du Cerceau. Château de Perrigny, Burgundy. Château de Bagnolet (duchesse d'Orléans)...
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    fragments of architecture borrowed from the drawings of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau and painted in surprising rainbow contrasts. The effect makes Caron's...
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