Louis Lucy Le Breton

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Louis Lucy Le Breton (born July 23, 1823 in Nogent-sur-Marne , † August 15, 1896 in Orléans ) was a leading French garden architect in the second half of the 19th century.

Origin and family

His father was the goldsmith Joseph Lucy Le Breton (* 1796), his mother Louise Adèle Dievre (* 1799). Louis Lucy Le Breton married Anna Bidault (1827–1898) in Orléans in 1850. They had five children, four of whom reached adulthood. The son Georges (1862–1913) continued to run his company after the death of his father, trading under the name “Le Breton & fils” and taking part in the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris .

Works

Grotto structure in the Parc de Dulamont in Blanquefort
Neo-Gothic arch bridge in Parc de Bourran , Merignac

Nothing is known about the education of Louis Lucy Le Breton. Le Breton described himself as an "Engineer Architecte-Paysagiste". In 1855, Le Breton designed the 22nd Exposition de la Société d'Horticulture d'Orléans , a horticultural exhibition in his home town of Orléans, which took place in a tent, the interior of which he had designed as a landscape garden , complete with rocks and waterfall. In 1857 he exhibited his own designs at a regional horticultural exhibition in Strasbourg . Also in 1857 he planned a garden for the Mairie of Château de La Vallière . However, it is not known whether this draft was carried out. In 1858 he exhibited his own designs again at a regional horticultural exhibition in Blois and received a silver medal for them.

Before 1858 he redesigned the baroque forest park of Château d'Herbault , an area of ​​40  hectares . In 1860 he designed a park in Montauban for the annual exhibition of the regional horticultural association. He received a silver medal for it again. Hardly anything has survived from the park. In 1867 he showed a series of plans at the world exhibition in Paris and received a bronze medal, at the world exhibition in 1878 a silver and that of 1889 a gold medal. In 1896, shortly before his death, another gold medal was added, which the Société d'hoticulture awarded him for the parks of Bourran and Dulamont . These are the only systems that - even if only partially - have been preserved from his extensive work. In the Bordeaux area alone there were originally at least 11. In addition, the following works by him are relatively well documented:

He secured a patent for a ball valve he had developed , which he used to supply water in parks.

Worth knowing

Le Breton had been a member of the Société impériale et centrale d'horticulture since 1859 .

literature

  • Edouard André: [Obituary for Louis Lucy Le Breton]. In: Revue Horticole 68 (1896), p. 402.
  • Jean-Pierre Beriac: Le Breton en Bordelais . In: Florence André (ed.): Un paysagiste botaniste sur les chemins du monde . Besançon 2001, pp. 269-279.
  • Ferdinand Werner : A forgotten garden architect: Louis Lucy Le Breton and the palace gardens of Majolan and Bourran. In: Die Gartenkunst 2018/2, pp. 243–260.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner, pp. 246, 248.
  2. ↑ Werner, p. 248.
  3. ↑ Werner, p. 248.
  4. ↑ Werner, p. 249.
  5. ↑ Werner, p. 248.
  6. ↑ Werner, p. 247.
  7. ↑ Werner, p. 250.
  8. ↑ Werner, p. 247.
  9. ↑ Werner, p. 247.
  10. ↑ Werner, p. 248.
  11. ↑ Werner, p. 248.
  12. ↑ Werner, p. 247.
  13. ↑ Werner, p. 250.
  14. ↑ Werner, p. 249f.
  15. ↑ Werner, p. 250.
  16. ↑ Werner, p. 249.
  17. ↑ Werner, p. 247.
personal data
SURNAME Le Breton, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Nogent-sur-Marne
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1896
Place of death Orleans