- Léon Vaudoyer
Léon Vaudoyer (1803-1872) was a noted French architect. He was one of the "romantic" Beaux-Arts architects influenced by Saint-Simon and
Auguste Comte , along with his contemporariesFélix Duban ,Henri Labrouste , andLouis Duc .Vaudoyer was born in Paris, the son of
Antoine Vaudoyer , and won the GrandPrix de Rome in 1826. In 1838 he won the design competition for the hôtel de ville inAvignon (unrealized), and from 1845 onwards he (withGabriel-Auguste Ancelet ) enlarged the buildings of the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs (now theConservatoire National des Arts et Métiers ). In 1852 he was given responsibility for reconstructing theSorbonne (unrealized), and also for designing the polychrome Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure inMarseilles .Juste Lisch was his student.References
* Théodore Ballu: "Notice sur M. Léon Vaudoyer". Firmin Didot Frères, Paris 1873.
* Barry Bergdoll, "Léon Vaudoyer: Historicism in the Age of Industry", MIT Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-262-02380-1.
* 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.
* David van Zanten: "Designing Paris : the architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer". MIT Press, 1987. ISBN 0262220318.
* [http://en.structurae.de/persons/data/index.cfm?id=d002834 Structurae entry]
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