Paul Selmersheim

Paul Selmersheim studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Eugène-Louis Millet is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Positions recorded include diocesan architect. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Antoine Paul Selmersheim • Born — 23 June 1840 • Birthplace — Langres, Haute-Marne, France • Died — 4 December 1916 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Diocesan architect

Antoine Paul Selmersheim was born in Langres in 1840. He studied under his uncle, Eugène Millet, in 1862. In 1863 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, where he won several medals. He worked as a draftsman with Millet on Moulins Cathedral. In 1867 Selmersheim and Louis Sauvageot won first prize in an open competition for restoration of a church in Brest. Selmersheim worked for the commission for historic monuments from 1870, and restored many buildings. Between 1870 and 1873 he built the church of Sainte-Chantal de Dijon. Selmersheim married Madeleine (or Marie) Victorine Louise Eugénie Naples. Their sons were Pierre Selmersheim and Tony Selmersheim (1871–1971), who also became an architect and worked with Charles Plumet. On 14 April 1875 Paul Selmersheim was named diocesan architect of Troyes, replacing Millet. On 3 March 1879 he became architect of the Moulins Cathedral in place of Louis Gabriel Esmonnot, who had resigned. On 12 January 1885 he succeeded Paul François Naples, who had died, as diocesan architect of Langres. From 1885 he was a member of the historical monuments commission, and later became inspector-general. In 1888 he was admitted to the Société Centrale des Architectes français. Antoine Paul Selmersheim died on 4 December 1916 at the age of 76. He was buried in the Cimetière du Nord in Paris.