biography
pronunciation:
[peroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1613–88)
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| biography:
| Architect, physician, and physicist, born in Paris, France, the brother of Charles Perrault, author of the Contes. With François d'Orbay, Claude built the colonnade of the Louvre (1667). Other works include the Paris Observatoire, and he also published an illustrated translation of the Roman architect Vitruvius in 1673. |
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