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| - Germain Boffrand (Nantes, 16 May 1667 — Paris 19 March 1754) was one of the most gifted French architects of his generation. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself. In his exteriors he held to a monumental Late Baroque classicism with some innovations in spatial planning that were exceptional in France His major commissions, culminating in his interiors at the Hôtel de Soubise, were memorialised in his treatise Le livre d'architecture, published in 1745, which served to disseminate the French "Louis XV" style throughout Europe.
The son of a provincial architect, Boffrand went to Paris in 1681 and began by studying sculpture in the atelier of François Girardon, before entering the large official practice of Jules Hardouin-Mansart. His uncle Philippe Quinault introduced him to prospective clients among the aristocracy of Paris and at Court. He was employed from 1689 (Kimball) on works in the Bâtiments du Roi under Mansart, notably at the Orangerie of Palace of Versailles and in Paris at Place Vendôme, where Boffrand was among the draughtsmen responsible for the first designs (from 1686) and for the Convent of the Capucins, Hôtel de Vendôme From 1693 he was less employed and in 1699 he left the Bâtiments du Roi to commence work, at first in Lorraine and in the Netherlands, then after his return to Paris in 1709, for a distinguished private clientèle in Paris, well disposed towards his audacious innovations, such as the oval forecourt of the Hôtel Amelot de Gournay (1710-13), that were unthinkable in the royal works. In 1709, he was placed in charge of the interior apartments of the Hôtel de Soubise, where he soon succeeded the architect Pierre-Alexis Delamair (1676-1745). None of his early interiors survive, largely replaced by his spectacular Rococo work of the years following 1735.
Boffrand was received by the Académie d'architecture in 1709. The following year he was among those employed in the additions to the Palais Bourbon. In 1732, he was appointed inspecteur général des ponts et chaussées and produced plans for restructuring Les Halles. He was a participant in the competition for the design of Place Louis XV. Named chief architect to the hôpital général in 1724, he constructed in the Île de la Cité a superb foundling hospital, the Hôpital des Enfants Trouvés (1727, demolished). Boffrand worked equally for the hospitals at the Salpêtrière, at Bicêtre, and at the Hôtel-Dieu.
Boffrand built a series of hôtels particuliers in Paris as speculative business enterprises. Of the inventive spatial arrangements in the hôtel that swiftly became the Hôtel Amelot de Gournay, Germain Brice remarked in the 1713 edition of his guidebook that "one will note some remarkable and daring lay-outs, which however appear rationally based, providing several amenities".. (en)
- Germain Boffrand (Nantes, 16 de mayo de 1667 – París, 19 de marzo de 1754), fue un personaje francés polivalente, ejerciendo de arquitecto, decorador e ingeniero. (es)
- Germain Boffrand (* 1667 in Nantes, † 1754 in Paris) war ein französischer Baumeister und Innenarchitekt, der dem Rokoko zuzuordnen ist. (de)
- Germain Boffrand, né à Nantes le 16 mai 1667, mort à Paris le 19 mars 1754, est un architecte français. (fr)
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| - Germain Boffrand (Nantes, 16 May 1667 — Paris 19 March 1754) was one of the most gifted French architects of his generation. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself. (en)
- Germain Boffrand (Nantes, 16 de mayo de 1667 – París, 19 de marzo de 1754), fue un personaje francés polivalente, ejerciendo de arquitecto, decorador e ingeniero. (es)
- Germain Boffrand (* 1667 in Nantes, † 1754 in Paris) war ein französischer Baumeister und Innenarchitekt, der dem Rokoko zuzuordnen ist. (de)
- Germain Boffrand, né à Nantes le 16 mai 1667, mort à Paris le 19 mars 1754, est un architecte français. (fr)
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