Léon Vaudoyer

Léon Vaudoyer studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Antoine Vaudoyer and Hippolyte Le Bas is recorded. Juste Lisch, Alfred Vaudoyer and Henri-Jacques Espérandieu are recorded as having studied under Léon Vaudoyer. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris and Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers. Positions recorded include diocesan architect and Inspector general of the Diocesan buildings. Works named in the authority record are Marseille Cathedral and Town hall of Avignon. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome, resident at the Villa Medici and Officer of the Legion of Honour.

Vaudoyer was born in Paris, the son of architect Antoine Vaudoyer. With his contemporaries Félix Duban, Henri Labrouste, and Louis Duc he became a leading light in architectural circles in the 1830s. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1826. In 1838 he won the design competition for the hôtel de ville in Avignon (unrealized), and from 1845 onwards he (with Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet) enlarged the buildings of the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs (now the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers). In 1852 he was given responsibility for reconstructing the Sorbonne (unrealized), and also for designing the polychrome Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure in Marseille. Juste Lisch and Edmond Paulin were among his students.

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