Claude Sahut

• Name — Claude Sahut • Born — 15 January 1883 • Birthplace — Montpellier, France • Died — 16 August 1932 • Place of death — Montpellier, France • Years Active — before 1912–1932 • Education — Beaux-Arts de Paris

Sahut studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he specialised in ornamentation and decoration within architecture. He arrived in Peru in 1905, working as a furniture designer for the Magot Frères factory. In 1907, he was commissioned by the Peruvian government commissioned him to head the Public Works section of the Charity of Lima. Under the government of Augusto B. Leguía, he was the architect in charge of the design of the Parque de la Reserva and the redesign of the Government Palace, which Ricardo de Jaxa Malachowski completed in 1937. He returned to France in 1932.

• Illustration — Teatro Colón (2012) Sahut was responsible for a number of buildings in Lima, including: • Casa Oechsle (1912, façade demolished 1950s) • Teatro Colón (1912) • Market of Chincha Alta (1913) • Casa Fernandini (1913) • Bolivarian Museum (1930) • Piura Prison (1919) • Archbishop's Palace (c. 1924) • New Women's Hospital (1912)

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation architect. It is also recorded that claude Sahut is recorded as a citizen of France. Institutional cataloguing adds that claude Sahut is recorded with the gender male. Born on 15 January 1883. Sahut died in Montpellier.