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Lucien Lefort
Frédéric Lucien Didier Lefort (January 6, 1850, in Sens – April 8, 1916, in Rouen, France) was a French architect. Biography Frédéric Lucien Didier Lefort was born on January 6, 1850, in Sens, Yonne, France, to Louis Lefort, an architect, and Rosalie Lucile Louise Montégu. In 1873, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. On January 1, 1877, he was appointed assistant architect in the service of Louis-François Desmarest, Louis Desmarest, the architect of the Seine-Maritime, Seine-Inférieure department. He later became the chief architect of Seine-Inférieure. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen in 1884. In 1886, he was one of the founding members of the society of the Amis des monuments rouennais. He resided in Rouen and was the son-in-law of the architect Juste Lisch. Honors * 1885: First class medal at the Salon des Artistes Français * 1889: Double gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889), 1889 E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sens
Sens () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yonne Departments of France, department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, 120 km from Paris. Sens is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture and the second city of the department, the sixth in the region. It is crossed by the Yonne (river), Yonne and the Vanne (river), Vanne, which empties into the Yonne here. History The city is said to have been one of the oppidum, oppida of the Senones, one of the oldest Celtic tribes living in Gaul. It is mentioned as Agedincum by Julius Caesar several times in his ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico''. The Roman city was built during the first century BC and surrounded by walls during the third (notable parts of the walls still remain, with alterations along the centuries). It still retains today the skeleton of its Roman street plan. The site was referred to by Ammianus Marcellinus as ''Senones'' (''oppidum Senonas''), where the future emperor Julian (emperor), Julian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
