biography
| name: |
Fontaine, Pierre-François Léonard
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pronunciation:
[fõten]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1762–1853)
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| biography:
| Architect, interior decorator, and designer, born in Pontoise, NC France. He studied in Paris under A F Peyre, with his friend Charles Percier. With Percier he studied architecture in Rome, and together they returned to France (1791), where they were commissioned by the state to design furniture for Georges Jacob. They were introduced to Josephine Bonaparte in 1799 by J L David and Isabey, who engaged them to transform Malmaison. Napoleon retained them as architects until 1814, with Fontaine being chief architect from 1807. When Percier retired they continued to work for the monarchy after the Restoration, and Fontaine was architect to the Tuileries and the Louvre until his death. |
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