Robert de Cotte

See also: Coat

Robert de Cotte was a French architect born in 1656 and died the July 15th 1735. It was one of the French great architects in the line of the Mansart (he was the brother-in-law of Jules Hardouin-Mansart).

Born with Paris, Robert de Cotte was accepted in 1687 with the royal Académie of architecture and became in 1708 First architect of the King and director of the Academy. Thus it completes the vault of the Château of Versailles, inaugurated in 1710. It was a large manufacturer, consulted per much European architects (like Johann Balthasar Neumann, for the residence of Würzburg), but also a large decorator, and its buildings were appreciated as much for their style than for their installations. It contributed much to the radiation of French architecture in Europe, even if it moved only seldom apart from Paris. One of its philosopher's stones was the Palate of the Thurn und Taxis in Germany, whose it drew the plans, but which was destroyed at the time of the Second world war.

Architectural works

Church Saint Charles Borromée, Sedan, 1685
Hotel of Lude
Hotel of Estrées, n° 79 Street of Grenelle, Paris (1710)
Transformations of the Hotel of Vrillière, Street of Vrillière, Paris, for the count de Toulouse (1715)
Contributions to the Hotel of Maine (1713-16)
the Stud farm of the Pine (1715-1730)
Hotel of Bourbon (1717)
Fountain of Samaritaine on the New Bridge
Fountain of the castle ofwater of the Palais Royal (1719)
Decoration for the chorus of Notre-Dame in Paris
Castle of Bonn
Castle of Poppelsdorf
Castle of Schleissheim, close to Munich
Plane to, in Plane Italy
of the Hunting lodge of Hunting, close to Turin
Restoration of the Town hall of Lyon,
Installation of the Place Bellecour
episcopal Palate of Châlons-sur-Marne (1719-1720)
episcopal Palate of Verdun
episcopal Palate of Strasbourg (1728-1741)

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