Jacques Debat-Ponsan
Jacques Harold Edouard Debat-Ponsan (Copenhagen, 21 August 1882 – Paris, 1942) was a French architect.
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Jacques Debat-Ponsan

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- Born
- 1882. · Copenhagen.
- Died
- Jacques Debat-Ponsan died, sources differ on the date (on 4 March 1942 and on 8 March 1942). · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- architect and chief architect of civil buildings and national palaces.
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Honours
- Prix de Rome and resident at the Villa Medici.
- Languages
- French.
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Jacques Harold Edouard Debat-Ponsan (Copenhagen, 21 August 1882 – Paris, 1942) was a French architect.
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Jacques Debat-Ponsan studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Marc Paget is recorded as having studied under Jacques Debat-Ponsan. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and resident at the Villa Medici.
Debat-Ponsan studied in the atelier of Victor Laloux at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took the Prix de Rome in 1912 and was resident at the Villa Medici from January 1913 to February 1915. Following the First World War, Debat-Ponsan was engaged in reconstruction projects, then in 1928 was named architect-in-chief of the French national Postes, télégraphes et téléphones administration (PTT). Debat-Ponsan was the son of French painter Édouard Debat-Ponsan, and the uncle of French Prime Minister Michel Debré.
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Work
• Paris telephone central office for exchange "Ségur", 55 Avenue de Saxe (1900) • urban planning and reconstruction of Cambrai, with fellow architects Pierre Leprince-Ringuet and Marc Germain Debré (beginning 1919) • reconstruction of Driencourt (1920-1927) • PTT Administration Building, 20 Avenue de Segur (1931-1939) • Paris telephone central office for exchange "Suffren", Avenue de Suffren (1933) • École Jean-Baptiste Clément, Boulogne-Billancourt (1934) • Unité de formation et de recherche biomédicale des Saints-Pères at Paris Descartes University, with Louis Madeline and Armand Guéritte (begun 1936, interrupted by the war, dedicated 1953) • Villa Douce, Reims, with Pol Gosset (1929-1932) • Hôtel de Ville, Boulogne-Billancourt (with Tony Garnier) (1934)
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