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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 634,528 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Eugène Viollet-le-Duc is the 30th most popular architect, the 411th most popular biography from France (up from 427th in 2019) and the 2nd 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 30 out of 424. Before him are Frank Gehry, Otto Wagner, Victor Horta, Adolf Loos, Apollodorus of Damascus, and Tadao Ando. After him are Henry van de Velde, Peter Behrens, Santiago Calatrava, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and André Le Nôtre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 6. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, Samuel Colt, and Mikhail Lermontov. After him are Adolphe Sax, Julius von Mayer, Anders Jonas Ångström, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, and Jenny von Westphalen. Among people deceased in 1879, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 4. Before him are James Clerk Maxwell, Bernadette Soubirous, and Honoré Daumier. After him are Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Adolf Anderssen, Gottfried Semper, Thomas Couture, Albrecht von Roon, Julia Margaret Cameron, Maria Teresa of Savoy, and Charles De Coster.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 411 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Genet (1910), Ambroise Paré (1510), René Goscinny (1926), André Citroën (1878), Robert I of France (860), and Hortense de Beauharnais (1783). After him are André Masséna (1758), Yves Klein (1928), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Philippe Noiret (1930), Louis Renault (1843), and Henri Charrière (1906).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ranks 2. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809). After him are André Le Nôtre (1613), François Mansart (1598), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Louis Le Vau (1612), Jean Nouvel (1945), Charles Garnier (1825), Hector Guimard (1867), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), and Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736).

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