Charles-Auguste Questel

Charles-Auguste Questel studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Paul Desjardins, Jean-Louis Pascal and Paul Lorain are recorded as having studied under Charles-Auguste Questel. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with École des Beaux-Arts. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour, Prix de Rome and Officer of the Legion of Honour.

Born in Paris, Questel was a student of Félix Duban at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and took a second-place Prix de Rome in 1844. He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1871. Questel became the patron of his own atelier at the Ecole. Among his students were Henri Paul Nénot, Ernest Sanson, James Freret, Eugène Train and the Swiss architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli; he was the father-in-law of French architect Honoré Daumet. Questel died in Paris. Upon his death the atelier was taken over by Jean-Louis Pascal.

His architectural work includes:

• the church of Saint-Paul in Nîmes built from 1835 through 1849 • the Pradier Fountain, Nîmes, 1851 (in collaboration with James Pradier) • the Saint Anne Hospital in Paris, 1867 • Préfecture de l'Isère, Grenoble, 1861-1866 • the Library and Museum of Grenoble, 1872

• Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard 1841–1846. (World Heritage Site). • Romanesque abbey church of St Philibert, Tournus 1841 onwards • Romanesque abbey church of Saint-Gilles 1842 onwards. (World Heritage Site)

The following is established of the heading itself.

The following is established of origins and background. Questel died in 1888 at 6th arrondissement of Paris. Born in 1807 at former 2nd arrondissement of Paris.