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    Théodore Ballu (8 June 1817 – 22 May 1885) was a French architect who designed numerous public buildings in Paris . He is the grandfather of the industrialist...
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    Sainte-Clothilde, begun by Franz Christian Gau in 1841 and finished by Théodore Ballu in 1857. During the Second Empire, architects began to use metal frames...
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    lasted from 1873 through 1892 (19 years) and was directed by architects Théodore Ballu and Édouard Deperthes, who had won the public competition for the building's...
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    including the Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Oran. Albert Ballu was the son of an architect, Théodore Ballu (1817–1885), who designed several churches in Paris...
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    André, architect, French Paul Andreu, French architect, 1968 graduate Théodore Ballu, architect Myron G. Barlow, painter, American Frederic Charles Hirons...
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    Sainte-Clotilde, Paris the first neo-Gothic church in Paris, by Christian Gau and Théodore Ballu (1846–1857) Sainte-Geneviève Library, Paris by Henri Labrouste (1844–1850)...
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    but Gau died in 1853; the work was continued by Théodore Ballu who completed the church in 1857. Ballu extended the front of the church by several meters...
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    tower during the 19th century. During the Second Empire, the architect Théodore Ballu restored the tower, placing it on a pedestal and designing a small city...
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    overthrown in 1870, but can be visited today. Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, by Théodore Ballu (1841–1857) Saint-Laurent, Paris by Simon-Claude-Constant Dufeux (1862–1865)...
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    neo-gothic bell tower of the city hall of the 1st arrondissement, by Théodore Ballu (1862), between the city hall (left) and the Church of Saint-Germain-Auxerois...
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