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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and writer, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne, and Château de Roquetaillade in the Bordeaux region.
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culture · French architect and author (1814–1879) · architect · writer · architectural drafter · art historian · architectural historian · restorer · castellologist · preface author · historic preservationist · also Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le- Duc, Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet- Le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le- Duc
Born 27 January 1814 · Died 17 September 1879 · Q272912
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he [Peers] laid down the principles which have governed architectural conservation in the United Kingdom and have served as a model in other parts of the world. His cardinal principle was to retain but not to restore the surviving remains of an ancient structure; and in this respect he departed emphatically from the tradition of Viollet-le-Duc and his successors in France and Italy, where exuberant restoration frequently obscured the evidence upon which it was based ...
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Won Royal Gold Medal (1864).
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 5 entries
Notre Temps: Viollet-le-Duc au chevet de Notre-Dame de Paris
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globalpulsemagazine.com: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc : dernières actus
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Europe1: [RÉCIT] - La véritable histoire d'Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, l’architecte qui a planté une flèche sur Notre-Dame
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Europe1: La véritable histoire d'Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, l’architecte qui a planté une flèche sur Notre-Dame
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La Voix du Nord: Boulogne: une lettre du célèbre architecte Eugène Viollet-le-Duc aux Archives municipales
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2023· 1 entry
ActuaLitté: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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2020· 1 entry
The Architect's Newspaper: Crypt at Notre Dame Cathedral reopens for exhibition on Victor Hugo, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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2014· 3 entries
The Daily Telegraph: Eugene Viollet-le-Duc celebrated with Google Doodle
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The Mirror: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc: Google Doodle honours Parisian 'restorative' architect
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1978· 1 entry
The writer Geneviève Viollet-le-Duc (winner of the prix Broquette-Gonin in 1978) was his great-granddaughter.
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1971· 1 entry
“he [Peers] laid down the principles which have governed architectural conservation in the United Kingdom and have served as a model in other parts of the world. His cardinal principle was to retain but not to restore the surviving remains of an ancient structure; and in this respect he departed emphatically from the tradition of Viollet-le-Duc and his successors in France and Italy, where exuberant restoration frequently obscured the evidence upon which it was based ...”
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1965· 1 entry
And a larger, centennial exhibition took place in 1980
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1946· 1 entry
His grave and monument were transferred to the Cemetery of Bois-le-Vaux (Section XVIII) in Lausanne
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1937· 1 entry
But the Museum of French Monuments was preserved and can be seen there today
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1925· 1 entry
His gargoyles and original ornamentation were removed, and the spire was recovered with tiles
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1881· 1 entry
And won a large following in the United States
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1879· 2 entries
Died 1879-09-17.
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Became ill and died in Lausanne on 17 September 1879
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1875· 1 entry
Making it available to an American audience little more than a decade after its initial publication in France
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1874· 1 entry
Viollet-le-Duc resigned as diocesan architect of Paris and was succeeded by his contemporary, Paul Abadie
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1872· 1 entry
Viollet-le-Duc was engaged in the reconstruction of the Château d'Amboise, owned by the descendants of the former King, Louis-Philippe
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1864· 1 entry
Won Royal Gold Medal (1864).
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1863· 1 entry
Viollet-le-Duc was named a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, the school where he had refused to become a student
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1860· 1 entry
Career landmark: diocesan architect (1860–1874).
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1857· 1 entry
Viollet-le-Duc began designing an entirely new chateau on the ruins
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1856· 1 entry
Using examples from other medieval churches and debris from Notre-Dame as his model, his workshop produced dragons, chimeras, grotesques, and gargoyles, as well as an assortment of picturesque pinnacles and fleurons
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1846· 2 entries
Engaged in a fervent exchange in print with Quatremère de Quincy, the Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy, on the question, "Is it suitable, in the 19th century, to build churches in the Gothic style
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The new tower, overloaded with masonry, began to crack, and Viollet-le-Duc was called in
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1845· 1 entry
“Description of an Oblique Bridge over the River Gaunless on the Hagger Leases Branch Railway Durham”
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1844· 1 entry
With the backing of Mérimée, Viollet-le-Duc, just thirty years old, and Lassus, then thirty-seven, won a competition for the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral which lasted twenty-five years
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1843· 1 entry
Mérimée took Viollet-le-Duc with him to Burgundy and the south of France, on one of his long inspection tours of monuments
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1840· 1 entry
In collaboration with his friend the architect Jean-Baptiste Lassus he began the restoration of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, which had been turned into a storage depot after the Revolution
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1838· 1 entry
Presented several of his drawings at the Paris Salon, and began making a travel book, Picturesque and romantic images of the old France, for which, between 1838 and 1844, he made nearly three hundred engravings
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1834· 2 entries
At the age of twenty, he married Élisabeth Templier, and in the same year he was named an associate professor of ornamental decoration at the Royal School of Decorative Arts, which gave him a more regular income
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Viollet-le-Duc married Elisabeth Tempier in Paris on 3 May 1834.
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1829· 1 entry
As a student at the college de Bourbon (now the Lycée Condorcet)
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1825· 1 entry
Began his education at the Pension Moran, in Fontenay-aux-Roses
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1822· 1 entry
Or 1823, Eugène met Prosper Mérimée, a writer who would play a decisive role in his career
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1816· 1 entry
Became the overseer of the royal residences of Louis XVIII
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1814· 1 entry
Born 1814-01-27.
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1812· 1 entry
And Mérimée declared it an historic monument in 1848
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1806· 1 entry
But the École had an extremely rigid system, based entirely on copying classical models, and Eugène was not interested
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