In the history of building, Blaise François Pagan is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Blaise François Pagan as French architect.
Blaise François Pagan was born at Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols in 1604. His recorded nationality is France.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, engineer and military engineer.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in France shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Blaise François Pagan died in 1665, aged 61. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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