Background
Mathurin Cherpitel was the son of a master carpenter who helped to build the Rue de Bourgogne in Paris.
Mathurin Cherpitel was the son of a master carpenter who helped to build the Rue de Bourgogne in Paris.
Académie royale d"architecture.
When he returned to Paris, he had difficulty finding work, but his father, who was employed in several projects in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, managed to find him employment. Around 1765, he was employed by François Dominique Barreau de Chefdeville, working on the Palais Bourbon. During this time, he also drafted plans for a reconstruction of the Hotel Locmaria on the Rue de l"Université for the Duke of Harcourt.
In 1768, he received his first commission: the Lieutenant General of Police, Antoine de Sartine, instructed him to build a nurses" bureau, on the Rue de Gramont.
By 1770, he had become a famous architect.