Léon Vaudoyer
Charles Courtry
Léon Vaudoyer (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ vodwaje]) (7 June 1803 – 9 February 1872) was a French architect.
Biography
Vaudoyer was born in Paris, the son of architect Antoine Vaudoyer.
With his contemporaries
Louis Duc
he became a leading light in architectural circles in the 1830s.
He won the Grand
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers). In 1852 he was given responsibility for reconstructing the Sorbonne (unrealized), and also for designing the polychrome Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure in Marseille.[1][2]
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Juste Lisch and Edmond Paulin were among his students.
References
Bibliography
- Théodore Ballu: Notice sur 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 2-7118-2486-1.
- David van Zanten: Designing Paris : the architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer. MIT Press, 1987. ISBN 0-262-22031-8.
External links
Media related to Léon Vaudoyer at Wikimedia Commons
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