Émile Gilbert

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Émile-Jacques Gilbert (3 September 1795 – 31 October 1874) was a 19th-century French architect.

In 1838 Gilbert was commissioned to reconstruct the

Hôtel Dieu opposite Notre Dame on the Île de la Cité, Paris.[2]

References

  1. ^ David Van Zanten, "Nineteenth-Century French Government Architectural Services and the Design of the Monuments of Paris" Art Journal 48.1, Nineteenth-Century French Art Institutions (Spring 1989:16-22) p. 17.
  2. ^ Van Zanten, eo. loc.