Charles Percier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French architect
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Place of Birth: Paris, Ăle-de-France, France
About Charles Percier
- Charles Percier ([?a?l p??sje]; 22 August 1764 â 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François LĂŠonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days.
- For work undertaken from 1794 onward, trying to ascribe conceptions or details to one or other of them is fruitless; it is impossible to disentangle their cooperative efforts in this fashion.
- Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich, grand, consciously-archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognise as Directoire style and Empire style. Following Charles Percier's death in 1838, Fontaine designed a tomb in their characteristic style in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
- Percier and Fontaine had lived together as well as being colleagues.
- Fontaine married late in life and after his death in 1853 his body was placed in the same tomb according to his wishes.
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| Alternative names | legal name: Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre | ||
| Description | French painter | ||
| Date of birth/death | 24 September 1755 | 3 October 1830 | |
| Location of birth/death | Bayeux | Paris | |
| Work location | Paris | ||
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