Charles Rohault de Fleury

Charles Rohault de Fleury (23 July 1801 - 11 August 1875) was a French architect.

Biography

De Fleury was born in Paris.

After a scientific course pursued at the Ecole Polytechnique at Paris, he studied sculpture, but abandoned this for architecture in 1825. He designed several public and private buildings in Paris and was the author of the first edition of the Manuel des lois du bâtiment published by the Central Society of Architects (1862).

He devoted the last years of his life to religious archaeology, publishing the important results of his studies in the following magnificently illustrated works: Les instruments de la Passion (1870); L'évangile, études iconographiques et archéologiques (1874); La Sainte Vièrge (1878) (Two volumes); Un Tabernacle chrétien du Ve siècle (1880); La Messe, études archéologiques sur ses monuments (1883-98).

De Fleury died at Paris in 1875. Some of his works were published posthumously by his son George (1835-1905) who was himself a prominent archaeological writer. The latter's works treat of Italian art-monuments: Monuments de Pise au moyen âge (1866); La Toscane au moyen âge, lettres sur l'architecture civile et militaire en 1400 (1874); Le Latran au moyen âge (1877).

References

• Oeuvres de Charles Rohault de Fleury, architecte (Paris, 1884)

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia article

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. 

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Name	Rohault de Fleury, Charles
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Date of birth	23 July 1801
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Date of death	11 August 1875
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