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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

1814 - 1879

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Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French: [øʒɛn vjɔlɛ lə dyk]; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne, and Roquetaillade castle in the Bordeaux region. His writings on decoration and on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a fundamental influence on a whole new generation of architects, including all the major Art Nouveau artists: Antoni Gaudí, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Henry van de Velde, Henri Sauvage and the École de Nancy, Paul Hankar, Otto Wagner, Eugène Grasset, Émile Gallé, and Hendrik Petrus Berlage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc has received more than 688,546 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Eugène Viollet-le-Duc is the 38th most popular architect (down from 29th in 2019), the 549th most popular biography from France (down from 411th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Architect.

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and theorist, most famous for his restorations of medieval buildings.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 38 out of 518. Before him are Peter Behrens, Carlo Maderno, Ictinus, Tadao Ando, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and Rem Koolhaas. After him are Hippodamus of Miletus, I. M. Pei, Kenzō Tange, Callicrates, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, and Michelozzo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 9. Before him are Taras Shevchenko, Samuel Colt, Mikhail Lermontov, Adolphe Sax, Anders Jonas Ångström, and Julius von Mayer. After him are Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, Jenny von Westphalen, August Grisebach, James Joseph Sylvester, and Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours. Among people deceased in 1879, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 5. Before him are James Clerk Maxwell, Bernadette Soubirous, Honoré Daumier, and Napoléon, Prince Imperial. After him are Adolf Anderssen, Albrecht von Roon, Gottfried Semper, Thomas Couture, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Grisebach, and Charles De Coster.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 549 out of 6,770. Before him are Theuderic I (485), Claude Chabrol (1930), Lothair of France (941), Étienne de La Boétie (1530), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), and Michel Piccoli (1925). After him are Éric Rohmer (1920), Jules Michelet (1798), René Laennec (1781), France Gall (1947), Gustave Caillebotte (1848), and Louise de La Vallière (1644).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 3. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), and André Le Nôtre (1613). After him are Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Jean Nouvel (1945), Louis Le Vau (1612), François Mansart (1598), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Charles Garnier (1825), Pierre Lescot (1515), Hector Guimard (1867), and Claude Perrault (1613).

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