Jacques Cellerier

Jacques Cellerier (1742–1814) was a French architect in the neoclassical style whose buildings can be seen mainly in Paris and Dijon.

Born in Dijon, son of innkeepers, a student of Nicolas Lenoir [fr], to whom he was related, he continued his training at the Académie royale d'architecture.

Together with his friend the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, he was pensionnaire du Roi in Rome before being appointed engineer of the Généralité of Paris.

A supporter of the Lumières, he drew the imposing funeral chariot that carried the ashes of his friend Voltaire to the Panthéon in 1791.

In 1790, he made the drawings for the triumphal arch of the Champ-de-Mars for the Fête de la Fédération.