biography
pronunciation:
[shalgrĩ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1739–1811)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Paris, France. A pupil of Servandou and Boullée, he designed the Church of St-Philippe-du-Roule, Paris (1774) and drew up the blueprint for the Arc de Triomphe (1806), in a typically early 19th-c revival of Greek and Roman styles. |
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