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The city of Paris has notable examples of architecture from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. It was the birthplace of the Gothic style, and has important monuments of the French Renaissance, Classical revival, the Flamboyant style of the reign of Napoleon III, the Belle Époque, and the Art Nouveau style.
Palais Garnier, also known as the Paris Opera (now Opera Garnier) (1862–1875) Théâtre Marigny; Casino of Monte Carlo (1878) Clair Tisseur (1827–1896), Romanesque Revival architect and designer Église du Bon-Pasteur, Lyon (1875–1883) Frantz Jourdain (1847–1935) – Art Nouveau architect and theorist La Samaritaine, Paris (1903-1907)
The Architect of the City of Paris (Architecte de la ville de Paris) is the incumbent of a municipal position, responsible for the design and construction of civic projects in Paris. In the Ancien Régime in France, the position of Bâtiments du Roi oversaw the construction and maintenance of the King's properties in and around Paris. This ...
Jean Nouvel (French: [ʒɑ̃ nuvɛl]; born 12 August 1945) is a French architect.Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture, France’s first labor union for architects.
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Fontaine de L'Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Pres, (1714-1717). Jean Beausire (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ boziʁ]; 26 February 1651 - 20 March 1743) was an architect, engineer and fountain-maker and the chief of public works in Paris for King Louis XIV of France and King Louis XV of France between 1684 and 1740, and was the architect of all the public fountains constructed in Paris that period.
The interior of the department store Galeries Lafayette (1912). The architecture of Paris created during the Belle Époque, between 1871 and the beginning of the First World War in 1914, was notable for its variety of different styles, from neo-Byzantine and neo-Gothic to classicism, Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
Entrance to the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine. The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (French pronunciation: [site də laʁʃitɛktyʁ e dy patʁimwan], Architecture and Heritage City) is a museum of architecture and monumental sculpture located in the Palais de Chaillot (), in Paris, France.