Pierre Bullet
Pierre Bullet (* around 1639 in Paris ; † 1716 there ) was a French court architect who can be assigned to the classicist Baroque with a rationalist tendency. He was a member of the Académie d'architecture (1685).
Life
As a student and collaborator of François Blondel in Paris, Pierre Bullet was involved in the construction of the Porte Saint-Denis (1672) in Paris, which glorified the military exploits of Louis XIV . Based on this building, he drew the plans for the simpler and more compact Porte Saint-Martin (1672–1674), which was built not far from it .
In 1670 Bullet had worked on two chapels in the Paris parish church of Saint-Roch , the Chapelle de l'Annonciation and the Chapelle de la Vierge . Then he was called to Bourges by Archbishop Michel Phélippeaux de la Vrillière in 1677 and entrusted with the construction of the archbishop's palace. There he was to build the Grand Séminaire de Bourges much later . For the time being, the Dominicans in Paris entrusted him with the construction of a larger church for their novitiate in the Rue du Bac , which was not completed until many years after Bullet's death and, after the revolution, was named St. Thomas d'Aquin (1682–1766) as a parish church .
Among the Parisian palaces created by Bullet, the Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau (1687) for the financial director Michel Le Peletier de Souzy and the Hôtel Crozat (before 1703) for Antoine Crozat , one of the richest, are to be highlighted at number 17 Place Vendôme Men of the kingdom. The Hôtel Crozat has been part of the neighboring Hôtel Ritz since 1910 .
The construction of Champs-sur-Marne Castle (1699–1706) near Paris for Charles Renouard de la Tuane, led - after the client's bankruptcy and Bullet's death - his son Jean-Baptiste Bullet de Chamberlain under the next owner Paul Poisson de Bourvallais over.
He wrote the writings "Traité du nivellement" (1688) and "Architecture Pratique" (1691). The latter work primarily dealt with the problems of measurement, calculation and billing of construction works and thus differed from the usual contemporary architectural literature. Bullet also tried his first structural studies (earth pressure, roof structures). The book saw numerous editions and revisions up to the beginning of the 19th century, making it one of the most successful architecture books.
In 1676, together with his teacher François Blondel, Bullet published a map of Paris, known for short as "Plan de Bullet et Blondel".
In the 10th arrondissement of Paris, a street ( Rue Pierre Bullet ) and a kindergarten bear his name.
literature
- Pierre Bullet: L'architecture pratique, qui comprend le détail du toise, & du Devis des ouvrages . Paris: Estienne Michalet, 1691
- Pierre Bullet: "Architecture pratique" presented by Thiery Verdier (fac-similé), Montpellier, 2005, Publications Montpellier 3, 2005, ISBN 2-8426-9712-X
- Marie-Nicolas Bouillet , Alexis Chassang (eds.): Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie Paris, Editions Hachette, 1878
- Eric Langenskiöld: Pierre Bullet, The Royal architect , Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell 1959
Web links
- List of buildings by Pierre Bullet in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French text)
- Information on Pierre Bullet in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Achim Hettler ; Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Earth Pressure . Berlin: Ernst & Sohn 2020, pp. 12f., ISBN 978-3-433-03223-7 .
- ↑ The official title is: "Plan de Paris levé par les ordres du Roi et par les soins de messieurs les prévôts des marchands et échevins et par les sieurs Bullet, architecte du roi et de la ville, sous la conduite de monsieur Blondel, maréchal de camp aux armées du roi, directeur de l'académie royale d'architecture et maître de mathématiques de monseigneur le Dauphin "
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bullet, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1639 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1716 |
| Place of death | Paris |