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4 unusual facts about Robert de Cotte


Jules-Robert de Cotte

The younger de Cotte assisted his father in the most prestigious architectural project in France, the building works at the royal palaces, (Bâtiments du Roi).

Jules-Robert de Cotte (1683–1767) was a renowned French architect, the son of one of the most highly regarded architect-administrators of his era, Robert de Cotte.

Robert de Cotte

Robert Neuman, Robert de Cotte and the Perfection of Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France, University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Balthasar Neumann, in Paris to consult him over the building operations at Würzburg, found him and his son grandly occupied.



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