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FONTAINE, See also:PIERRE See also:FRANCOIS LEONARD (1762-1853) , See also:French architect, was See also:born at See also:Pontoise on the loth of See also:September 1762. He came of a See also:family several of whose members had distinguished themselves as architects. Leaving the See also:college of Pontoise at the See also:age of sixteen he was sent to L'Isle-See also:Adam to assist in See also:hydraulic See also:works undertaken by the architect See also:Andre. To facilitate his improvement Andre allowed him to have See also:access to his plans and to copy his designs. In See also:October 1779 he was sent to See also:Paris to study in the school of Peyre the younger, and there began his acquaintance with Percier, which ripened into a See also:life-See also:long friendship. After six years of study he competed for a See also:prize at the See also:Academy, and, winning the second for the See also:plan of an underground See also:chapel, he received a See also:pension and was sent to See also:Rome (1785). Percier accompanied him. The Revolution breaking out soon after his return to See also:France, he took See also:refuge in See also:England; but after the See also:establishment of the consulate he was employed by See also:Bonaparte, to whom he had been introduced by the painter, See also:David, to restore the See also:palace of Malmaison. Hence-forth he was fully engaged in the See also:principal architectural works executed in Paris as architect successively to See also:Napoleon I., See also:Louis XVIII. and Louis Philippe. In See also:conjunction with Percier (till his See also:death) he was employed on the See also:arch of the Carrousel, the restoration of the Palais-Royal, the See also:grand See also:staircase of the Louvre, and the works projected for the See also:union of the Louvre and the Tuileries. In 1812 he was admitted a member of the Academy of See also:Fine Arts, and in 1813 was named first architect to the See also:emperor. With Percier he published the following works—Palais, maisons, et autres edifices de Rome moderne (2802); Descriptions de ceremonies et de fetes (1807 and 181o); Recueil de decorations interieures (2812); Choix See also:des plus celcbres maisons de plaisance de Rome et des environs (1809-1813); Residences des souverains, Parallele (1833).

L'histoire du Palais- Royal was published by Fontaine alone, who lost Percier, his friend and See also:

associate, in 1838, and himself died in Paris on the loth of October 1853.

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