Paul Tournon

Paul Tournon , born with Marseilles the February 19th 1881 and died in Paris the December 22nd 1964, is a Architecte French.

He was architect as a chief of the civil buildings and palates national, and member of the Académie of the Art schools.

One owes him in particular of the religious buildings in Reinforced concrete, of which the Église Holy-Therese-in-the Child-Jesus with Élisabethville (Yvelines) and the church of the Holy Spirit to Paris.

He was the son-in-law of Edouard Branly, the husband of Elisabeth Branly, painter, and the father of two girls, Florence Tournon-Branly, author of stained glasses, and Marion Tournon-Branly, architect and professor with the École of the Art schools and the American school of Fontainebleau.

Principal achievements

  • Church Our-Lady-of-Missions in Epinay-sur-Seine 1931-1932
  • Church Holy-Therese-in-the Child-Jesus with Élisabethville (Yvelines)
  • church of the Holy Spirit to Paris
  • the cathedral of Casablanca (Morocco)

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