Pierre-Alexandre Vignon

Pierre-Alexandre Barthélemy Vignon is a neo-classic architect French born in 1763 and died in 1828.

Vignon studied architecture with Claude Nicolas Ledoux, of which he was the preferred pupil. For the empress Joséphine, it built in 1805 the large hot greenhouse of Malmaison, in collaboration with Jean-Thomas Thibault. In 1806, it was charged to draw up the plans of a vast building which was to take the place under consideration for the new church of the Madeleine and who was to shelter the Banque de France, the Bankruptcy court and the Bourse de Paris.

When this project was abandoned at the end of 1806 and that it was decided to build, in the same place, a Temple with the glory of the soldiers of the Large army (First Empire), Vignon took part in the contest of architecture organized for this building and was chosen by Napoleon I {{er}}, against the opinion of the imperial Academy. He proposed a temple Périptère, return to antiquity, inspired of the Greek architecture and Roman. It is this project which was carried out and led to current the church of the Madeleine. Slowed down by the lack of funds, work was continued after the death of Vignon in 1828 by his/her collaborator, Jacques-Marie Huvé, and were completed only in 1842.

One often allots to Vignon the Temple of Glory builds with Orsay towards 1800 for Jeanne Hulot. This attribution is based only on the relationship of the building with works of Ledoux.

Principal achievements

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