Antoine Pautre
Antoine Pautre (or Lepautre) is a French architect born in Paris in 1621 and died in 1679.
In 1646 - 1648, Pautre builds the convent of Port-Royal in Paris. Protected from the cardinal Mazarin, it dedicates its to him Recueil of drawings of several palates (1653), in which it gives free course to its imagination.
Built between 1655 and 1660, the Hotel of Beauvais, Street François-Miron, in Paris, is worth the celebrity by the ingeniousness to him with which the architect can benefit from a piece of very irregular form. Architectural qualities of this building are noticed by the Bernin, at the time of its Parisian stay.
In 1660, Pautre is named general inspector of the buildings of Mister, brother of the king Louis XIV. In this quality, it builds in 1667 famous Grande cascade of the field of Saint-Cloud, very admired by the contemporaries and who was fortunately preserved.
Several drawings, preserved at the national museum of Stockholm, indicate Pautre like the author of the stables of Jean-Baptiste Colbert with the Château of Seals, with the beginning of the year 1670.
At the same time, Madam de Montespan requests it in order to draw up the plans of sound Château of Clagny, near to Versailles. The death of Pautre in 1679 stopped this work which was completed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.