About Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
Lived 1743 – 1829 (aged 86). Jean-Baptiste Rondelet was a French architect, essayist, textbook writer and master builder.
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet (; 4 June 1743 – 25 September 1829) was an architectural theorist of the late Enlightenment era and chief architect of the church of Sainte-Geneviève after the death of Jacques Germain Soufflot of cancer in 1780.
Rondelet published a treatise on architecture between 1805 and 1816.
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Jean-Baptiste Rondelet was born on 4 June 1743 in Lyon.
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Jean-Baptiste Rondelet died on 25 September 1829 in Paris.
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Jean-Baptiste Rondelet was an architect, essayist, textbook writer and master builder.
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