Jean-Rodolphe Perronet

Jean-Rodolphe Perronet (8 October 1708 – 27 February 1794) was a French architect and structural engineer known for his many stone arch bridges. His best-known work is the Pont de la Concorde.

Early life Perronet was born in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris, on 8 October 1708. He was the son of David Perronet, a Swiss Guardsman from Château-d'Œx, and Marie Travers.

In 1772, Perronet was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He died in Paris on 27 February 1794, aged 85.

Death and legacy He died on 27 February 1794 in Paris, aged 85. The street next to the site of the École des ponts et chaussées (delimiting Paris's 6th and 7th arrondissements) is now named after him and a statue of him, sculpted by Adrien Étienne Gaudez, has been erected on the northeast corner of the Île de Puteaux, at the foot of the pont de Neuilly (whose first stone version, built in 1772 and surviving until 1942, was his work).

Works

1750–1760 – Bridge at Orléans 1757–1765 – Bridge at Mantes 1758–1764 – Bridge at Trilport 1765–1786 – Bridge at Château-Thierry 1766–1769 – Pont Saint-Edne at Nogent 1768–1774 – Bridge at Neuilly-sur-Seine 1770–1771 – Pont Les Fontaines 1774–1785 – Bridge at Sainte-Maxence sur l'Oise 1775 – Bridge at -Bicheret 1776–1791 – Grand pont de Nemours 1776- – Bridge at Mirepoix, Ariege 1784–1787 – Bridge at Brunoy 1786–1787 – Bridge at Rosoy 1786–1791 – Pont Louis XVI, later renamed Pont de la Concorde, Paris