CUVILLES, FRANCOIS DE (1698-1767), French archi tect and engraver. He helped to carry the French rococo taste to Germany—he was summoned about 172o to Cologne by the elector James Clement; in 1738 he became architect to the elector of Bavaria, and afterwards occupied the same position towards the emperor Charles VII. His style, while essentially thin, is elaborate and bizarre. His son, Francois de Cuvilles the younger, succeeded his father at the court of Munich.