Léonard Racle in Pont-de-Vaux (Ain (01))

Léonard Racle (1736-1791) is listed in his French Wikipédia entry as an engineer, architect and potter, although the present exhibition leaflet of him at Pont-de-Vaux, where he died, also says that he was a cartographer, entrepreneur, mathematician, geometrician and tiler. He is most well known as an architect, in particular for adding two wings to Voltaire's château in 1765 in what is now Ferney-Voltaire. He also paved the streets of Ferney. Later, after Voltaire's death in 1778, he set about constructing the Canal de Pont-de-Vaux. He built this house, now a Monument Historique, in 1785.