Artist

(b. 1763, Paris, d. 1828, Paris)

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French architect of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Trained under Julien David Leroy (1724-1803); he was also a close friend of Claude Nicolas Ledoux. He was appointed Inspecteur général des bâtiments de la République in 1794. In 1807, Napoleon I chose Vignon's uncompromising Neoclassical design for his Temple de la Gloire (after 1813 the Madeleine) in Paris. //

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Category	Artists
Artists by letter	V
Artist nationality	French