Louis Tellier

See also: Tellier

Louis Tellier is a contractor and French, active architect in Paris at the 18th century, died in this city in 1785.

Biography

Inspector of the Buildings of the king to Versailles, Tellier took part as contractor in the construction of the cathedral Saint-Louis and the royal Opéra.

Starting from 1741, it built in Paris, within Nicolas Lhuillier of the Tower, the buildings of the Abbaye Saint-Martin-of-Fields, which remain in the enclosure of the Conservatoire national of arts and trades, Rue Saint Martin's day.

Tellier acquired of the Hôtel of the Ambassadors of Holland, 47 Rue Old woman-of-Temple, where it made cut down the staircase and the vault, due to Cottard, and carry out new installations, in particular the living room of Flora and Zéphirs, by the sculptor Guibert and the painter Joseph-Marie Vien.

Starting from 1767, it built the hotel of Tessé, 1 Quai Voltaire. He worked then within Jacques-Denis Antoine with the mint, and with the roadway of Antin on those of Alexandre Theodore Brongniart.

With his/her son, Louis-Pierre Tellier († 1786), it built the hotels the Master and of Ségur, 7 and 9 Rue Saint-Florentin cheese (1768), the hotels Roy de Senneville and the Tower of the Pine-Gouvernet, 6 and 8 street Royale (1769), the 9,11 and 13 rue Royale (after 1781).

With his death, Louis Telier had twenty-two buildings in Versailles, Paris, Chaville, Châtillon-under-Bagneux. Its grand-daughters made good matches with aristocrats.

He had married Catherine Caqué.

Source

  • Michel Roller, Parisian architects of the XVIIIe century , Paris, Mengès Editions, 1995, p. 346 - ISBN 2856203701

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