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See also:PAUL See also:MARIE See also:VIOLLET (184o- )
, See also:French historian, was See also:born at See also:Tours on the 24th of See also:October 184o
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After serving his native See also:city as secretary and archivist, he became archivist to the See also:national archives in See also:Paris in 1866, and later librarian to the See also:faculty of See also:law
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In 1890 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:civil and See also:canon law at the ecole See also:des chartes
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His See also:work mainly concerns the See also:history of law and institutions, and on this subject he published two valuable and scholarly books—See also:Droit public: Histoire des institutions politiques et administratives de la See also:France (189o-98), and Precis de l'histoire du droit frangais (1886)
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See also:VIOLLET-LE-DUC
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See also:EUGENE See also:EMMANUEL (1814-1879), French architect and writer on See also:archaeology, was born in Paris on the 21st of See also:January 1814
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He was a See also:pupil of Achille Leclere, and in 1836-37 spent a See also:year studying See also:Greek and See also:Roman See also:architecture in See also:Sicily and See also:Rome
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His See also:chief See also:interest was, however, in the See also:art of the See also:Gothic See also:period, and, like See also:Sir See also: His last work was the general See also:scheme ' He published in 1867-69 a fine work showing his not very successful coloured decoration applied to the chapels of Notre Dame . for the Paris See also:exhibition buildings in 1878 . He died on the 17th of See also:September 1879 at See also:Lausanne . As a designer Viollet-le-Duc occupied only a secondary See also:place; but as a writer on medieval architecture and the kindred arts he takes the highest See also:rank . His two See also:great dictionaries are the See also:standard works in their class, and are most beautifully illustrated with very skilful drawings by his own See also:hand . Violletle-Duc was a See also:man of the most varied and brilliant abilities, endowed with a See also:power of work which has seldom been equalled . He was at once an artist, a man of See also:science, a learned archaeologist and a See also:scholar . The See also:map in his Le See also:Massif du Mont See also:Blanc, showing the See also:rock contours and the glaciers of Mont Blanc, is a See also:model of its See also:kind, which combines great artistic beauty with the accuracy of the most skilful engineer . His strong poetical See also:fancy enabled him to reconstruct the See also:life and buildings of the See also:middle ages in the most vivid way . His See also:principal See also:literary works were the Dictionnaire de l'architecture francaise du XI. au X VI. siPcle (1854-68) ; Dictionnaire du mobilier See also:francais (1858-75); L'Architecture militaire au moyen ige (1854); Entretiens See also:sus l'architecture (1863-72) ; Cites et ruins americaines (1863) ; Memoire sur la defense de Paris (I871); Habitations moderns (1874- 77) ; Histoire dune maison (1873) ; Histoire d'une forteresse (1874) ; Histoire de 1'habitation humaine (1875) ; Le Massif du Mont Blanc (1876) ; L'Art russe (1877) ; Histoire d'un hotel-de-ville et d'une cathedrale (1878) ; La Decoration appliquee aux edifices (1879); as well as many See also:minor works dealing with See also:separate buildings . |
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