See also: Baltard

Victor Baltard , born with Paris the June 10th 1805 and died in Paris the January 13rd 1874, is a Architecte French which exerted in Paris under the Second Empire.

Biography

In 1833 it gains the Grand Prix of Rome prepared to the École of the Art schools of Paris. Of 1834 with 1838, it remains with Rome as a boarder of the Villa Médicis. The Académie from France to Rome is then under the direction of Dominique Ingres. Starting from 1849, it becomes Architecte of the town of Paris. It is there also architect diocesan for the episcopal Palais and the Grand seminar, but this station is withdrawn to him in 1854 because the administration of the worships considers that it attaches not enough importance to his work. It is particularly famous for the Halles of Paris which it carried out between 1852 and 1872. Those were demolished in 1972 - 73 except for one of the houses which was classified historic building and was re-installed with Nogent-sur-Marne. Him the restoration of various churches is owed. He is also the author of two burial S: that of the type-setter Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely with the Cemetery of the Father-Lachaise and that of the lawyer Leon Louis Rostand with the Cemetery of Montmartre.

Victor Baltard is the son of the architect Louis-Pierre Baltard.

Principal achievements

• Restoration of the Auxerre-native Saint-Germain-the church (I {{er}} district), in collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Lassus of 1838 with 1855.

• Restoration of the church Saint-Eustace (Ier district) in 1844.
• Construction of the law courts of Lyon in 1847, today seat of the Court of Appeal of Lyon and the Court of Assizes of the the Rhone.
• falls It from the type-setter Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wely (1817-1869) to the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise. (photography)
• Houses of the Markets (1852-1872). (photography)
• Construction of the church Saint-Augustin (1860-1871). (photography)
• Restoration of the church Saint-Etienne-of-Mount (V {{E}} district): it directs the building work of the vault of Catechisms and restores the frontage of the church between 1861 and 1868.
• Restauration of the church of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows.
• Restoration of the church Saint-Severin.
• Frontage of Notre-Dame of the Servites (IV {{E}} district): it went up in 1863 and comes from the church of Barnabites which was to be demolished.
• Restoration of the church Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis (IVe district): the Architecte deals mainly with the refitting of the chorus and the repair of the frontage.

External bonds

• Biographie supplements on the site of the family

• Fonds Baltard

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