Joly, Jules-Jean-Baptiste de
Joly, Jules-Jean-Baptiste de (1788–1865). French architect. A pupil of Percier and Fon-taine, he designed the Chambre des Députés, vestibule, Salon du Roi, and sumptuous Library (1821–33) in the Palais Bourbon, Paris, which he published in 1840 as Plans, coupes, élévations et détails de la restauration de la Chambre des Députés.
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