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French architect (–)

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (French pronunciation:[ʒakʒɛʁmɛ̃suflo], 22 July &#; 29 August ) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism.

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His most famous work is the Panthéon in Paris, built from onwards, originally as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve.

Biography

Soufflot was born in Irancy, near Auxerre. In the s he attended the French Academy in Rome, where young French students in the s would later produce the first full-blown generation of Neoclassical designers.

Soufflot's models were less the picturesque Baroque being built in modern Rome, as much as the picturesque aspects of monuments of antiquity.

After returning to France, Soufflot practiced in Lyon, where he built the Hôtel-Dieu, like a chaste riverside street facade, interrupted by the central former chapel, its squared dome with illusionistic diminishing coffers on the interior.

With the Temple du Change, he was ent