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(b Paris, 1698; d Paris, 1782). French architect, son of Jacques V Gabriel. Presumably educated in the circle of the Premier Architecte, he was a member of the Académie Royale d’Architecture by 1728 and was assisting his father on the Place Royale at Bordeaux in 1729. Ange-Jacques does not seem to have followed in his father’s footsteps to Italy or to have shared his private career. Preoccupied from the outset with work on royal buildings, under his father, he developed a special relationship with Louis XV, who had a sophisticated appreciation of architecture. He became Contrôleur de Versailles in 1734 and succeeded Jacques V as Premier Architecte and Director of the Académie Royale d’Architecture in 1742. In these capacities he was responsible for all the major royal projects of the reign, and Louis XV’s full maturity as a patron coincides with Ange-Jacques’s period as Premier Architecte. He gave up that office in March 1775, within the first year of the new reign, but retained the honorary title and the directorship of the Académie until his death....