title: Jean-François Blondel
text: # Jean-François Blondel
  
  Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was a French architect.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Born in Rouen, Blondel was admitted in the Académie d'architecture in 1728.
  
  He was the master and uncle of Jacques-François. He also had another nephew as a student, Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe, whom he took in his agency on his return from Rome.
  
  ## Main realisations
  
  * Maison Mallet, Geneva, 1724.
  * Maison de Saussure, Creux de Genthod [fr], 1724-1730.
  * Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix [fr], 1736-1740
  * Palais des Consuls in Rouen [fr], 1741-1747 (destroyed in 1944)
  * Hôtel des gardes du Roi, Versailles, 1750-1754
  * Maison de Saussure, Creux de Genthod
  * Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix
  