Jacques Lemercier

Jacques Lemercier (1585 with Pontoise - January 13rd 1654 with Paris) is a “Architecte and Engineer of the King” (First architect of the King).

Jacques Lemercier belongs to a family of architects and Master-masons established already well in Ile-de-France. His/her grandfather, Pierre the Draper, and his/her father, Nicolas the Draper, directed the large building sites of Pontoise (Saint-Maclou, Notre-Dame).

After a long formation with Rome (under Henri IV), Jacques Lemercier, under respective protections of Marie de Médicis and of the Cardinal of Richelieu, becomes the “Architect and engineer of the King” (Louis XIII).

In addition to its qualities of architect, it is also Urbaniste, Décorateur and Dessinateur of Jardin S.

Principal works

the Church of the Sorbonne
the house of the Clock to the Louvre
In 1645, Mazarin calls upon François Mansart to rebuild the Église and the Monastère of the Valley-of-Grace. Work begins in spring 1645, but the following year it is discharged from it with the profit from Jacques Lemercier.
the Palais Royal in Paris * Oratory of the Louvre * The Church Saint Joseph-of-Carmelite friars in Paris * The frontage of the church Saint-Pierre Saint-Paul of Rueil-Malmaison

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