See also:

• PIERRE

PIERRE See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS LEONARD See also:

• PIERRE FRANCOIS LEONARD FONTAINE (1762-1853)

FONTAINE (1762-1853)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French architect, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PONTOISE

Pontoise on the loth of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1762 . He came of a See also:

• FAMILY

family several of whose members had distinguished themselves as architects . Leaving the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of Pontoise at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of sixteen he was sent to L'Isle-See also:

• ADAM
• ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)
• ADAM, ALEXANDER (1741–1809)
• ADAM, JULIETTE (1836– )
• ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759)
• ADAM, MELCHIOR (d. 1622)
• ADAM, PAUL (1862– )
• ADAM, ROBERT (1728—1792)
• ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (1781-1853)
• ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839)

Adam to assist in See also:

• HYDRAULIC

hydraulic See also:

• WORKS

works undertaken by the architect See also:

• ANDRE, JOHN (1751-178o)

Andre . To facilitate his improvement Andre allowed him to have See also:

• ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access to his plans and to copy his designs . In See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1779 he was sent to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris to study in the school of Peyre the younger, and there began his acquaintance with Percier, which ripened into a See also:

• LIFE

life-See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long friendship . After six years of study he competed for a See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize at the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, and, winning the second for the See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan of an underground See also:

• CHAPEL

chapel, he received a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension and was sent to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome (1785) . Percier accompanied him . The Revolution breaking out soon after his return to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, he took See also:

• REFUGE

refuge in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England; but after the See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of the consulate he was employed by See also:

• BONAPARTE

Bonaparte, to whom he had been introduced by the painter, See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David, to restore the See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace of Malmaison . Hence-forth he was fully engaged in the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal architectural works executed in Paris as architect successively to See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon I., See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XVIII. and Louis Philippe . In See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with Percier (till his See also:

• DEATH

death) he was employed on the See also:

• ARCH
• ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

arch of the Carrousel, the restoration of the Palais-Royal, the See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• STAIRCASE

staircase of the Louvre, and the works projected for the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union of the Louvre and the Tuileries . In 1812 he was admitted a member of the Academy of See also:

• FINE

Fine Arts, and in 1813 was named first architect to the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor . With Percier he published the following works—Palais, maisons, et autres edifices de Rome moderne (2802); Descriptions de ceremonies et de fetes (1807 and 181o); Recueil de decorations interieures (2812); Choix See also:

• DES

des plus celcbres maisons de plaisance de Rome et des environs (1809-1813); Residences des souverains, Parallele (1833) .

L'histoire du Palais- Royal was published by See also:

• FONTAINE, PIERRE FRANCOIS LEONARD (1762-1853)

Fontaine alone, who lost Percier, his friend and See also:

• ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate, in 1838, and himself died in Paris on the loth of October 1853 .