Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe (7 February 1834 – 29 October 1895) was a French architect.

Biography

Born in Paris, he worked on the Great Exhibitions held in the city in 1855 and 1867. As the architect of the Consistory of Paris, in 1867 he began construction of the

Grand Synagogue of Paris The Grand Synagogue of Paris (french: Grande Synagogue de Paris), generally known as Synagogue de la Victoire ( en, Synagogue of Victory) or Grande Synagogue de la Victoire ( en, Grand Synagogue of Victory), is situated at 44, Rue de la Victoire ...

which opened in 1874, and became available for public worship in 1875. The

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is in a Romanesque style, with flowers, embellished with Byzantine ornamentation. In 1886, he also built the Versailles Synagogue, in the novel style. He became the architect of

Gustave de Rothschild Gustave Samuel James de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild (17 February 1829 in Paris – 28 November 1911 in Paris) was a French banker and scion of the French branch of the Rothschild family. He was the second son of James Mayer de Rothschild and ...

, and built for him, between 1873 and 1883, his mansion,

Hôtel de Marigny The Hôtel de Marigny is a town house in Paris, France, on the Avenue Marigny, not far from the Elysée Palace. It is used as a state guest house for state visitors to France. The house has been the property of the French government since 1972. ...

(now state property, annexed to the Palais de l'Élysée). After an initial phase of work, from 1873, a wing back pierced by a gate giving access to the courtyard was erected on the Avenue de Marigny, and another building was constructed along the street. Along this building, located in back yard, were Corinthian columns and a pediment carved from the former Hotel Choiseul. The Hotel de Marigny consists of a main building and a wing back to two levels above a basement housing services. The access door to the vestibule incorporates two sockets on the ground floor, while in the upper part, four Corinthian columns framing a bay and two niches and support coaching and pediment. Aldrophe also built for Gustave de Rothschild, in 1880, the Hayes Castle known as The Versini, Saint-Maximin, near

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. He built the School Gustave de Rothschild, Rue Claude Bernard in the

5th arrondissement of Paris The 5th arrondissement of Paris (''Ve arrondissement'') is one of the 20 Arrondissements of Paris, arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''le cinquième''. The arrondissement, als ...

. In 1873, recommended by the Rothschilds, he built the Hotel Thiers, place Saint-Georges in the 9th arrondissement, today Dosne-Thiers Foundation, Institute of France. Pedimented facades topped by a balustrade inspired Louis XVI popular style around 1870. In 1894, he proposed a series of projects for an elegant mansion, adorned with Ionic columns of colossal order for Mr. Alphonse Falco on a plot 39, avenue Henri-Martin in Paris 16th Arrondissement. In the same year, the Belgian king Leopold II appointed Aldrophe as the architect of the "Palais des Colonies", a museum building for the colonial section of the 1897 World Exhibition in

Tervuren Tervuren () is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, Belgium. The municipality comprises the villages of Duisburg, Tervuren, Vossem and Moorsel. On January 1, 2006, Tervuren had a total population of 20,636. The total a ...

. Aldrophe died at Paris in 1895 and his plans for Tervuren was continued by Ernest Acker.

Sources

* Dominique Jarrassé: ''Guide du patrimoine juif parisien''. Parigramme, Paris 2003, * Jean Colson/Marie-Christine Lauroa (Hrsg.): ''Dictionnaire des monuments de Paris''. Editions Hervas, Paris 2003 (1. Auflage 1992), * Marcel Luwel: 'Geschiedenis van de Tentoonstelling van 1897 te Tervuren'. In M. Luwel & M. Bruneel-Hye de Crom (Eds.), Tervueren 1897. Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, page 6. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aldrophe, Alfred Philibert 1834 births 1895 deaths Architects from Paris Jewish architects 19th-century French architects Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery