Hippolyte Durand
Hippolyte Durand (Paris, 1801 - id, 1882) is a Architecte French.
Born in Paris in 1801, it specialized in medieval architecture and thus worked he, inter alia, with the restoration of the Saint-Remi basilica of Rheims. Alexandre Dumas, enriched thanks to success by the Three Musketeers, chooses it as architect for the construction of the residence of his dreams, the Château of Assembles-Cristo to the Port-Marly (Yvelines). In 1848, he is the architect of the diocese of Bayonne, but following a disagreement with the bishop of the place, he resigned and found architect of the dioceses of Auch and Tarbes.
Among his achievements, one can note the beginning of the construction of the villa of Eugenie with Biarritz. He also worked with the construction or the restoration of many churches on the dioceses of the Gers, the Landes and the Hautes-Pyrénées. One owes him the realization of Notre Dame of Lourdes, completed in 1872.
He dies in Paris in 1882.
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