Jules Hardouin Mansart

Jules Hardouin Mansart

male, deceased (1708)
Jules Hardouin-Mansart was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the...
Louis Le Vau

Louis Le Vau

male, deceased (1670)
Louis Le Vau was a French Baroque architect who worked for Louis XIV of France. He was born and died in Paris. He was responsible, with André Le N...

André Le Nôtre

male, deceased (1700)
André Le Nôtre was a landscape architect and the gardener of King Louis XIV of France from 1645 to 1700. Most notably, he was responsible for the co...
Robert de Cotte

Robert de Cotte

male, deceased (1735)
Robert de Cotte (1656 - 15 July 1735) was a French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France from 1699,...
Hyacinthe Rigaud

Hyacinthe Rigaud

male, deceased (1743)
Hyacinthe Rigaud (Hiacint Riagau was a French painter of catalan origin. He was born Jacint Rigau i Ros -though in many enciclopaedias is...
Antoine Coysevox

Antoine Coysevox

male, deceased (1720)
Charles Antoine Coysevox (September 29, 1640 - October 10, 1720), French sculptor, was born at Lyon, and belonged to a family which had emigrated...
Ange-Jacques Gabriel

Ange-Jacques Gabriel

male, deceased (1782)
Ange-Jacques Gabriel was the most prominent French architect of his generation. Born to a Parisian family of architects and initially trained by...
Christine Albanel

Christine Albanel

female, 54 years old
Christine Albanel is a French civil servant. She is currently France's Minister of Culture since May 2007 in François Fillon's governement. A...

John Frederick Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

male, deceased (1679)
John Frederick (German: Johann Friedrich; 25 April 1625, Herzberg am Harz - 18 December 1679, Augsburg) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled o...
Jean-Pierre Blanchard

Jean-Pierre Blanchard

male, deceased (1809)
Jean-Pierre Blanchard (7 July 1753 - 7 March 1809) was a French inventor, most remembered a pioneer in aviation and ballooning. Blanchard made his...