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Molinos, Jacques
(b Lyon, 4 June 1743; d Paris, 19 Feb 1831). French architect. He studied at the Académie Royale d’Architecture, Paris, under Jacques-François Blondel. His early work included the château of Puisieux (1780–85), near Villers-Cotterêts, which he built for the Marquis de Vasan, but his most important projects were realized in partnership with JACQUES-GUILLAUME LEGRAND. Together they built a glass and timber dome (1781; destr.) to cover the courtyard of Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières’s Halle au Blé, Paris, supporting it on light trusses, and later the Halle aux Draps (1786; destr. 1855), using the same type of construction, which had first been proposed by Philibert de L’Orme during the 16th century. They also built their own house (1789) at 6, Rue Saint-Florentin, and the Hôtel Marbeuf in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, which is famous for its refined, polychrome decoration in the manner of the Antique. In 1789–90 Molinos and Legrand erected the Théâtre Feydeau (destr.), for performances of Italian opera. It had a semicircular façade, reflecting the shape of the auditorium, pierced on the ground floor by three arched openings framing entrances articulated by Doric columns; the piers of the first-floor arcade were faced with caryatids, a striking manifestation of Neo-classicism that subsequently influenced Friedrich Gilly’s design (c. 1798; unexecuted) for the Schauspielhaus in Berlin. Molinos and Legrand also designed the Hôtel de Ville (1792), Auteuil, in the form of an ancient temple, and their lecture hall for chemical, botanical and anatomical demonstrations in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, was inspired by small Hellenistic temples. Molinos’s other civic works included the Fontaine Valhubert, the Marché Saint-Honoré (1809) and the Halle au Vieux Linge (1808–11) in the Enclos du Temple, all in Paris. In 1817 Molinos became municipal architect for the city of Paris and designed decorations for city festivals. He also built the Barrière de Rochechouart (1826) and the Marché Popincourt (1829–31), both in Paris.
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