# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-blondel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:18:36.944Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-blondel"
name: "François Blondel"
slug: "francois-blondel"
description: "François Blondel was a soldier, engineer of fortifications, mathematician, diplomat, military and civil engineer and architect, called \"the Great Blondel\", to distinguish him in a dynasty of French architects. He is remembered for his Cours d'architecture which remained a central text for over a century. His precepts placed him in opposition with Claude Perrault in the larger culture war known under the heading Querelle des anciens et des modernes. If François Blondel was not the most highly reputed among the académiciens of his day, his were the writings that most generally circulated among the general public, the Cours de Mathématiques, the Art de jetter les Bombes, the Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places and, above all his  Cours d'Architecture."
tagline: "French architect (1618-1686)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Frontispiz_Cours_d%27architecture_Francois_Blondel_1698.jpg/330px-Frontispiz_Cours_d%27architecture_Francois_Blondel_1698.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1618-06-15"
deathDate: "1686-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.56216933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فرانسوا بلونديل"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump