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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

1814 - 1879

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Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French: [øʒɛn vjɔlɛ lə dyk]; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, 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. His writings on decoration and on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a fundamental influence on a whole new generation of architects, including all the major Art Nouveau artists: Antoni Gaudí, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Henry van de Velde, Henri Sauvage and the École de Nancy, Paul Hankar, Otto Wagner, Eugène Grasset, Émile Gallé, and Hendrik Petrus Berlage. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc is the 36th most popular architect (up from 38th in 2019), the 561st most popular biography from France (down from 549th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Architect.

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and theorist, most famous for his restorations of medieval buildings.

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Among architects, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 36 out of 518. Before him are Adolf Loos, Santiago Calatrava, Carlo Maderno, Henry van de Velde, Rem Koolhaas, and I. M. Pei. After him are Peter Behrens, Ictinus, Jørn Utzon, Hippodamus of Miletus, Tadao Ando, and Vladimir Tatlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 8. Before him are Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, Mikhail Lermontov, Samuel Colt, Anders Jonas Ångström, and Adolphe Sax. After him are Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, Henri Nestlé, Jenny von Westphalen, and James Joseph Sylvester. Among people deceased in 1879, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 5. Before him are James Clerk Maxwell, Bernadette Soubirous, Honoré Daumier, and Napoléon, Prince Imperial. After him are Adolf Anderssen, Albrecht von Roon, Rowland Hill, Thomas Couture, Maria Teresa of Savoy, Gottfried Semper, and Charles De Coster.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 561 out of 6,770. Before him are Françoise Sagan (1935), Paul Delaroche (1797), Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753), André Maurois (1885), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), and Gaspard II de Coligny (1519). After him are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Henri, Count of Chambord (1820), François Jacob (1920), Hilary of Poitiers (315), Joseph de Maistre (1753), and Maurice Allais (1911).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 3. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), and André Le Nôtre (1613). After him are Jean Nouvel (1945), Louis Le Vau (1612), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), François Mansart (1598), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Charles Garnier (1825), Claude Perrault (1613), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), and Hector Guimard (1867).

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