biography
| name: |
Gabriel, Jacques-Ange
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pronunciation:
[gabryel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1698–1782)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Paris, France, regarded as the greatest French architect of the 18th-c. A pupil of his father Jacques and of Robert de Cotte, he joined the Académie (1728) and succeeded his father as first architect to Louis XV (1742). He designed the Petit Trianon (1762), the Place de la Concorde (1754), Place Louis XV, and the École Militaire (1751). His work blended classical elegance and restraint, and the ‘style gabriel’ had a great influence on other architects, including Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. |
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