As the son and brother of stonemasons, Puget was well equipped to understand the technical aspects of building, though it is not clear how far he was involved in the erection of the few architectural projects that were actually built according to his intentions.

Puget's earliest ‘architectural' work was the portal of the Hôtel-de-Ville at Toulon (see §1 above), commissioned in 1656. The turning-point in his career as an architect was his period in Rome c. 1662, when he would have seen the mature Baroque buildings of Cortona, Francesco Borromini and Carlo Rainaldi, as well as Bernini's dramatic exercises in urban planning.

Puget's two surviving built works, other than the displaced portal of the Toulon Hôtel-de-Ville, are the Halle aux Poissons, a magnificent temple-like building in Marseille, and the famous Hospice de la Charité, Marseille, for which his designs were accepted in 1671, though the building was not completed until 1747.

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	Exterior view c. 1671 Photo Hôtel d'Estienne-de-Saint-Jean, Aix-en-Provence	952*1600 True Color 218 Kb
	Exterior view c. 1675 Photo Hôtel Boyer d'Eguilles, Aix-en-Provence	1500*1005 True Color 247 Kb
	Exterior view 1671-1741 Photo Hospice de la Charité, Marseille	1500*1125 True Color 219 Kb
	Exterior view began 1671 Photo Chapel of la Vieille Charité, Marseille	1400*1177 True Color 240 Kb
	Exterior view 1666 Photo Halle aux Poissons, Marseille	1600*976 True Color 170 Kb