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    Hector-Martin Lefuel (14 November 1810 – 31 December 1880) was a French architect, best known for his work on the Palais du Louvre, including Napoleon...
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    nascent Third Republic: Théodore Ballu, Gabriel Davioud, Paul Abadie, Hector-Martin Lefuel... Within the space of a few years, the State and the City of Paris...
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    to oversee the construction of the building and he commissioned Hector-Martin Lefuel as the architect. It was designed for jeu de paume, which nowadays...
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    grandiose projects, one of which was established by the architect Hector-Martin Lefuel, did not in the end see the light of day. Meudon, taken from the...
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    Guiraud 1828 – Guillaume Despréaux 1829 – First Prize not awarded 1830 – Hector Berlioz ("first" First Grand Prize) and Alexandre Montfort ("second" First...
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    commission was composed of members such as Alphonse de Gisors and Hector-Martin Lefuel. It is Prosper Morey’s design that was chosen, although the architect...
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    Tuileries, a project known as Nouveau Louvre and only completed later by Hector-Martin Lefuel. He was also made president of the Société Centrale des Architectes...
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    Visconti then Hector Lefuel built the Denon and Richelieu pavilions as echoes of Lemercier's Pavillon de l'Horloge. In the 1860s and 1870s, Lefuel used designs...
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    built a theatre in his château de Chimay in Belgium, designed by Hector-Martin Lefuel and Cambon and inspired by Louis XV's theatre at the Palace of Fontainebleau...
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  • after 1854 when the Nouveau Louvre was begun by J. T. Visconti and Hector Martin Lefuel; the Paris Expositions of 1855 and 1867 spread the style". The Second...
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