Jean-Louis Bouet

Jean-Louis Bouet , born with Cristot the 1765 and died in Rouen the August 25th 1810, is a Architecte French.

The father of Bouet, farmer and carpenter, made him learn the state from carpenter. Then fifteen years old, it expressed already happy provisions and was not long in exceeding its Master. Understanding that it needed to attend the big cities to acquire knowledge which was necessary for him to follow with distinction an occupation whose productions are varied ad infinitum, Bouet came, in 1784, in Rouen in the only intention to improve.

It there succeeds and was, in few years, able to undertake the most difficult work, but, transported in a sphere much wider, its ideas rose and increased and Bouet conceived and carried out the project to learn the drawing and the elementary principles from architecture. It thus entered to the famous art school of Descamps.

Though it was forced to share its time between the exercise of its profession and the new studies to which it was delivered, Bouet could overcome all the obstacles and be sufficed for itself by its heat and the most assiduous work. Its progress was fast and, soon, it was in a position to teach the first elements of the drawing.

A little later it entered, as draftsman, at Guérout, then architect of the city, then in Pioche, engineer of the district. Consequently, Bouet gave up for always its first occupations and delivered entire to the study art to which it had been dedicated; it followed constructions, learned all the details, and traversed from them with speed the circle of knowledge necessary to an architect.

In 1795, Bouet succeeded the place of architect of the city become vacant by the retirement of Guérout. The paralysis of arts which resulted from the events of the Révolution prevented Bouet from highlighting the talents which it had acquired by the study and the meditation. The end of the revolutionary disorders enabled him to develop them in the composition of the plans and the control of several particular houses whose execution was entrusted to him: convenient distributions there are noticed and beautiful proportions, these first tests began its reputation.

French industry starting to be raised about this same time of the species of destruction where had plunged the Revolution, of large and vast workshops of spinning mill, which made the richness of the Seine-Maritime then started to rise of all shares, Bouet was charged to give the plans and to direct the execution of several of these great establishments and discharged some so as to deserve the regard and the confidence of the people who had occupied it.

In 1804, the Académie of Rouen admitted Bouet with the number of its members resident. Of a kind nature, gracious and modest, which reconciled the regard of its superiors, the respect and the attachment of its subordinates to him, Bouet was then in charge of many work, at the city and the countryside which, joined to the duties of its place of architect of the city absorbed all his moments. Often it spent the nights to be composed, and the days were employed with frequent voyages and to visit work. This multiplicity of businesses of any kind often put it in the hard need for entrusting to its pupils details which were to contribute to the whole of its compositions, such is the cause of some of faults of agreement which are pointed out in its last productions.

So many care, so much of tirednesses deteriorated its health imperceptibly, and were the principle causes the long one and painful disease to which he succumbed in an age where he could hope to enjoy still a long time the fruit of his work.

Source

Precise analytical of work of, the Humanities Academy of Science and Art of Rouen , Rouen, Pierre Périaux, 1812, p. 188-90

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