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    Pierre-François-Henri Labrouste (French: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃ʁi labrust]) (11 May 1801 – 24 June 1875) was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux-Arts...
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    supporting the roof, was built between 1838 and 1851 by architect Henri Labrouste. The library contains around 2 million documents, and currently is...
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    challenged by four teachers at the academy, Joseph-Louis Duc, Félix Duban, Henri Labrouste, and Léon Vaudoyer, who had studied at the French Academy in Rome at...
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    Madeleine, Paris. The classic example of Néo-Grec architecture is Henri Labrouste's innovative Bibliothèque Sainte Genevieve in Paris, 1843–50, generally...
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    ISBN 0-312-29479-4. OCLC 48550993. Henri Labrouste; Corinne Bélier; Barry Bergdoll; Marc Le Cœur; Martin Bressan; Neil Levine (2012). Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought...
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  • in Washington, D.C., is completed. 1862 – Construction begins on Henri Labrouste's reading room at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (site Richelieu)...
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    French architect, the contemporary of Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Henri Labrouste. Duban won the Prix de Rome in 1823, the most prestigious award of...
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    of the Greeks instead of their mere practices. It would take until Henri Labrouste's Neo-Grec of the Second Empire for Greek Revival architecture to flower...
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    General La Chasse de Vérigny and Alexandre Labrouste [fr], father of notable architect Henri Labrouste. A further 22 people were injured, with at least...
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  • Arc-et-Senans (Les Salines Royales) Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826) Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) – famous for his use of steel Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève...
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    National d'Histoire de l'Art, Richelieu site (1854–1875), was designed by Henri Labrouste The Grand Salon of the apartments of the minister of state, currently...
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    Renaud (1841) Interior of the Sainte-Geneviève Library (1844–1850) by Henri Labrouste The July Column in the Place de la Bastille (1831–1840) by Joseph-Louis...
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    buildings, and numerous other structures. Among his apprentices was Henri Labrouste. In poverty later in life, he was buried in the 27th division of Père...
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    festival held at the Champ-de-Mars in Paris, France. The architect Henri Labrouste and the painter Pierre-Victor Galland contributed to the decoration...
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    entrance front façade of the Sainte-Geneviève Library, Paris, designed by Henri Labrouste in 1838–1839, built in 1834–1850 Neoclassical Doric pilasters on the...
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  • brother. Like his brother, Jules was also an architect and a student of Henri Labrouste. He married Marianne Bouwens in 1861, but she died shortly thereafter...
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    goldsmith. He then joined the studio of Henri Labrouste, studying architecture. After two years of training, Labrouste encouraged him to pursue his interest...
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    historical research service. The Sainte-Geneviève Library, designed by Henri Labrouste and built in the mid-1800s, contains a rare book and manuscript division...
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  • Completion of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris to the design of Henri Labrouste, the first major public building with an exposed cast-iron frame. Astronomer...
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    the Sainte-Geneviève Library, Paris by Henri Labrouste (1844–1850), with its pure Renaissance facade. Labrouste designed the interior of this library and...
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    library staff retrieve books for patrons on request. French architect Henri Labrouste, shortly after making pioneering use of iron in the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve...
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    the 2nd arrondissement, the Bibliothèque Richelieu is to a design by Henri Labrouste with nine domes; it opened in 1868. There are three public libraries...
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  • W. Pugin, English ecclesiastical architect (born 1834) June 24 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (born 1801) "CURW, Sage Chapel host events to celebrate...
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    studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and was pupil of Léon Vaudoyer and Henri Labrouste. His architectural career was geared towards civic work: stations,...
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    studied sculpture with Antoine Étex. He also studied architecture under Henri Labrouste and Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Bartholdi attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand...
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  • such as the Collège Chaptal and Lycée Voltaire. Architects such as Henri Labrouste and Auguste Perret incorporated the virtues of structural rationalism...
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    Alfred-Henri Bramtot 1880 – Henri Lucien Doucet 1881 – Louis Édouard Fournier 1882 – Gustave Popelin [fr] 1883 – Marcel Baschet 1884 – Henri Pinta 1885...
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  • Dobson, is opened. Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris, designed by Henri Labrouste, is completed, the first major public building with an exposed cast-iron...
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    Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève reading room, built 1843–51, by architect Henri Labrouste, who also designed an even more elegant multiple-domed reading room...
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  • it he reappraised the Greek Revival architects C.R. Cockerell and Henri Labrouste. In his own work he was strongly influenced by nostalgia for the craftsmanship...
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