Léon Vaudoyer

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Commemorative plaque for Léon Vaudoyer in the cathedral of Marseille which he designed

Léon Vaudoyer (born June 7, 1803 in Paris ; † February 9, 1872 there ) was a French architect . He was the son of Antoine Vaudoyer .

Influenced by the ideas of Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte , he became one of the fathers of historicizing architecture. In 1826 he received the Grand Prix de Rome and in 1838 first prize in the architectural competition for the construction of the Hôtel de Ville in Avignon .

From 1845 he expanded together with Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet the priory of St-Martin-des-Champs in Paris, the seat of the Conservatoire des arts et métiers and the Musée des arts et métiers , giving the church a new facade in neo-flamboyant -Style gave. In 1852 he took over the construction of the Cathédrale de la Major in Marseille and the enlargement of the Sorbonne .

Léon Vaudoyer was the teacher of Juste Lisch and the father of Alfred Vaudoyer .

literature

  • Théodore Ballu: Notice on M. Léon Vaudoyer . Firmin Didot Frères, Paris 1873.
  • Barry Bergdoll, Daphné Doublet, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Marie-Laure Crosnier Leconte: Les Vaudoyer: une dynastie d'architectes . Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1991, ISBN 2711824861 .
  • Barry Bergdoll: Léon Vaudoyer: historicism in the age of industry . Architectural History Foundation. MIT Press, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-262-02380-6 .
  • David van Zanten: Designing Paris: the architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer . MIT Press, Cambridge 1987, ISBN 0-262-22031-8 .

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SURNAME Vaudoyer, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1872
Place of death Paris