Eugene Lefèvre-Pontalis

Course

After secondary studies with the College Condorcet, Eugene Lefèvre-Pontalis between with the School of the charters. It leaves there in 1885 with a thesis on the religious architecture in the old diocese Soissons at 11th and the 12th centuries , published shortly after and for which he is prize winner of the Institut. It in parallel starts a training course at Simil, architect of the Historic buildings.

At the exit of the School, he becomes librarian of the Library of the learned societies and continues his research. But as of 1894, it is named temporary professor of medieval archeology to the École of the charters, renewing pedagogy by the projection of photographs of its many voyages. He will become professor in 1911. Parallel to his courses and with many publications in erudite reviews, Eugene Lefèvre-Pontalis becomes president of the French company of archeology (1900) and, in 1916, president of the National company of the antique dealers.

The destruction of many old churches of Picardy, Lorraine and Champagne during the First World War constitutes for him a personal drama: it accordingly founds the Company of the friends of the cathedral of Rheims in order to help with its restoration.

Its collection of 14 000 photographs on glass plates, bequeathed to the French company of archeology, from now on is preserved at the Media library of architecture and the inheritance.

Works (nonexhaustive)

Study on the date of the church Saint-To germinate , 1885 Disponible on Gallica
historical and archaeological Study on the church of Paray-le-Monial , 1886 Disponible on Gallica
Study on the chorus of the church of Saint-Martin-of-Fields with Paris , 1886 Disponible on Gallica
Monograph of the church of Villers-Saint-Paul , 1886 Disponible on Gallica
Monographs of the churches of Juziers, Meulan and Triel , 1886 Disponible on Gallica
New study on the date of the church of Saint-Germer : answer to Mr. de Dion , 1886 Disponible on Gallica
Bibliography of the learned societies of France , 1887
Monograph of the church of Gonesse , 1887 Disponible on Gallica
historical and archaeological Study on the nave of the cathedral of the Mans , 1889 Disponible on Gallica
the well of the Saint-Forts and crypts of the Cathedral of Chartres , 1896 - 1906 Disponible on Gallica
History of the cathedral of Boundary-line , 1900 Disponible on Gallica
the church of Fresnay-sur-Sarthe , 1902
the abbey church of Chaalis (Oise) , 1903 Disponible on Gallica
Gothic architecture in the Champagne Southerner at 13th and the 14th centuries , 1904
Jean Langlois, architect of Saint-Urbain of Troyes , 1904

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