François Debret
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François Debret was a 19th-century French architect and Freemason. He was one of a group of influential academic architects in the 1820s and 1830s that furthered the precepts of Percier and Fontaine,
François Debret in 1846 by Noël after Alaux INHA
Pavillon de Hanovre on the Boulevard des Italiens.
Salle Le Peletier, the Paris Opera from 1821 to 1873.
Transformable room for show, concert and dance, 1779.
The Théâtre National, later the Théâtre des Arts, was a Parisian theatre located across from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France on the rue de la Loi, which was the name of the rue de Richelieu from
François Debret
…After restoring Nicolas Lenoir's Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in 1818, he remodeled the acoustically well-regarded auditorium of Victor Louis's Théâtre des Arts in 1819. His changes included raising the ceiling by replacing the original Ionic capitals with Corinthian. In 1820 he was commissioned to design the…
Théâtre National de la rue de la Loi
The Death of the Duke of Berry by Alexandre Menjaud, 1824
View of the auditorium (1821)
Elevation, section, and plans (1821)