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    Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa teʁɛz ʃalɡʁɛ̃]; 1739 – 21 January 1811) was a French architect, best known for his design...
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    the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806; its iconographic programme pits heroically nude French youths...
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    Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled...
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    resigned to study, from 1770 to 1774, architecture, partly in Paris with Jean Chalgrin. His opportune assistance to two German nobles in a tavern brawl obtained...
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    for his 1833 continuation of the Arc de Triomphe from the plans of Jean Chalgrin. Son of a builder, Huyot attended the École nationale supérieure des...
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    neighboring religious order of the Carthusian monks. The architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, took on the task of restoring...
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    Ledoux (1736–1806) and Jean-François Chalgrin (1739–1811); painters included Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) and his pupil, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres...
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    Napoleon Bonaparte, the grotto was restored by the neoclassical architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, who replaced the simple water...
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    Jacques-Germain Soufflot, and the Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule (1765–1777) by Jean Chalgrin, which featured an enormous barrel-vaulted nave. Hôtel de la Marine...
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    who erected twin towers to Servandoni's design. Servandoni's pupil Jean Chalgrin rebuilt the north tower (1777–1780), making it taller and modifying...
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