François Debret , born with Paris in 1777 and died in Saint-Cloud in 1850, is a Architecte Franc-maçon French.

Biography

Wire of Jacques Debret, clerk with the criminal court of the Parliament of Paris, and his wife Elisabeth, commercial linen maid, younger brother of Jean-Baptiste Debret, he was the pupil of Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine.

He was in charge with the maintenance and the repair of the basilica of Saint-Denis, and appointed architect as a chief of the Town of Paris, general inspector of the civil buildings, member of the Council of the civil buildings. He was elected member of the Académie of the Art schools of the Institute of France in 1825.

In 1808, it married a sister of Felix Duban, of which it had a son, Francois, born in 1809, raises School of the Art schools and logist, then architect of the town of Paris.

François Debret was member of the cabin “the Perfect Point”, initiated on June 24th 1823. He was Expert of the Supreme Council of the Rites of the Grand the East of France, in charge of all the ritual aspect of work in Cabin.

He taught with his brother-in-law Felix Duban at the School of the Art schools. He had inter alia as pupils Antoine-Nicolas Bailly, Constant-Dufeux Simon-Claude and Felix Duban.

Achievements

• Restoration of several theaters and the School of the Art schools (1822 - 1832), old Museum of the French monuments. This work was continued by his/her brother-in-law Felix Duban.
• Architect of the Opera and the Academy of music of Paris (1838).
• It replaced Jacques Célerier on the permanent building site of the basilica of Saint-Denis in 1813. It restored, on the plans of its predecessor, the frontages, the tower, the pink of the transept, created the vault of the chapter and intervened on the interior decoration of the church. Napoleon required of him to envisage its tomb there. Under the Restoration, it was charged to reinstall there the royal tombs exiled hitherto with the museum of Small-Augustins. It is under its direction that cracks appeared in the northern tower and that this one had to be dismounted. François Debret was replaced by Eugene Purple-the-Duke in 1846. This sad history (the tower always waits in spare parts under a hangar until it is gone up) was worth in François Debret its place in the history of architecture.

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