"Jacques-François Blondel (8 January 1705 – 9 January 1774) was an 18th-century French architect and teacher. After running his own highly successful school of architecture for ...
many years, he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the Académie Royale d´Architecture in 1762, and his Cours d´architecture ("Course of Architecture", 1771–1777) largely superseded a similarly titled book published in 1675 by his famous namesake, François Blondel, who had occupied the same post in the late 17th century." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.11.2019)