Noël Le Maresquier
Illustration — Noël Le Maresquier Noël Le Maresquier (6 August 1903 – 20 October 1982) was a French architect and one of the most prominent postwar architects of France.
Noël Le Maresquier
- Full name
- Noël Louis Gabriel Lemaresquier.
- Born
- 1903. · 8th arrondissement of Paris.
- Died
- 1982. · 16th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- architect.
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Teachers
- Georges Labro, Victor Laloux and Charles Lemaresquier.
- Known for
- Tour Mirabeau, Saint-Nazaire railway station and Rangueil Hospital.
- Honours
- Prix de Rome.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Noël Le Maresquier Noël Le Maresquier (6 August 1903 – 20 October 1982) was a French architect and one of the most prominent postwar architects of France.
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Noël Le Maresquier studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Georges Labro, Victor Laloux and Charles Lemaresquier is recorded. Roger Taillibert, Ngô Viết Thụ and Claude Parent are recorded as having studied under Noël Le Maresquier. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris. Works named in the authority record are Tour Mirabeau, Saint-Nazaire railway station and Rangueil Hospital. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome.
• Illustration — In 1930, winner of Prix de Rome. Born in Paris, he was the son of the prominent architect Charles Lemaresquier, and succeeded his father as head of the Beaux-Arts de Paris grande école. He continued his father's Atelier Lemaresquier. He was the brother-in-law of French Prime Minister Michel Debré. Le Maresquier and his family are referred to as French "state nobility" by Pierre Bourdieu. In 1944 he was tasked with the reconstruction of several cities bombed by the Americans like Saint-Nazaire; he was a supporter of the clean slate approach, unlike Louis Arretche in Saint-Malo.
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Family
Le Maresquier was married to the Spanish noblewoman Conchita López de Tejada; their daughter Isabelle Le Maresquier was an accomplished equestrian in the 1960s and 1970s. Isabelle was the mother of Marie-Isabelle Hénin, the wife of the Chancellor of Austria, Alexander Schallenberg.
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8th arrondissement of Paris.
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16th arrondissement of Paris.
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- 1.AGORHA : Bases de données de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA). agorha.inha.fr.
- 2.CTHS – LE MARESQUIER Noël Louis Gabriel. cths.fr.
- 3.Pierre Bourdieu, The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power (p. 293), Stanford University Press, 1998
- 4."Discours prononcé lors de l'installation de Noël Le Maresquier, 21 June 1961", by M. Dupré, Publications de l'Institut de France, 1961, no. 14
- 5."Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Noël Le Maresquier", by B. Zehrfuss, Publications de l'Institut de France, 1983, no. 11
- 6.Archives d'architectes, État des Fonds XIXe-XXe siècles, Institut français d'Architecture, by S. Gaubert and R. Cohu, Paris, 1996, fonds 44/19 and 75/14, p. 83, 149.
- 7.C. A. Starke Verlag. Genealogisches Handbuch der gräflichen Häuser. XVIII/139. 375. 2006. 3-7980-0839-6.
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