Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claude Nicolas Ledoux

French Neoclassical architect

Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1736

Place of Birth: Dormans, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 19-Nov-1806

Profession: architect, urban planner

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (21 March 1736 – 18 November 1806) was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture.
He used his knowledge of architectural theory to design not only domestic architecture but also town planning; as a consequence of his visionary plan for the Ideal City of Chaux, he became known as a utopian.
His greatest works were funded by the French monarchy and came to be perceived as symbols of the Ancien Régime rather than Utopia.
The French Revolution hampered his career; much of his work was destroyed in the nineteenth century.
In 1804, he published a collection of his designs under the title L'Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des mœurs et de la législation (Architecture considered in relation to art, morals, and legislation).
In this book he took the opportunity of revising his earlier designs, making them more rigorously neoclassical and up to date.
This revision has distorted an accurate assessment of his role in the evolution of Neoclassical architecture.
His most ambitious work was the uncompleted Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, an idealistic and visionary town showing many examples of architecture parlante.
Conversely his works and commissions also included the more mundane and everyday architecture such as approximately sixty elaborate tollgates around Paris in the Wall of the General Tax Farm.

Martin Drolling (1752–1817)
Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	19 September 1752	16 April 1817
Location of birth/death	Oberbergheim	Paris
Work location	Strasbourg (1768); Paris (1768–1817)
Authority control	: Q3295410 VIAF: 39650734 ISNI: 0000 0000 6662 0131 ULAN: 500115180 LCCN: nr91024193 WGA: DROLLING, Martin WorldCat