Charles-Axel Guillaumot (Stockholm, February 1730 - Paris, 1807) was a French architect.
Life
Born in
Stockholm
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to French parents, he entered the
Académie royale d'architecture in 1770. He was made the first
Inspecteur Général des Carrières de
Paris when it was created by a decree of
Louis XVI on 4 April
1777
Events
January–March
* January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a second ...
and held the post until 1791 and then from 1796 until his death (the longest-ever holder of the office). In this role he mapped the
mines of Paris to enable better maintenance of public roads and royal buildings (he did not look into ones on private land), to reduce the risk of cave-ins and to re-use them as
ossuaries (becoming the
Catacombs of Paris). He was also Administrateur de la manufacture des Gobelins. He was buried in the
cimetière Sainte-Marguerite
The Cimetière Sainte-Marguerite was a cemetery in a common ditch located between Paris and the village of Charonne during the French Revolution. It was level with 36 rue Saint-Bernard and beside église Sainte-Marguerite in the 11th arrondisseme ...
, whose remains were later transferred into the ossuaries he had helped create.
Main projects
* 1754-1756: 3 barracks for the Swiss Guards:
**
Rueil-Malmaison, what is now Guynemer, part of the Musée des Gardes suisses.
** the former caserne Charras in
Courbevoie
Courbevoie () is a commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine Department of the Île-de-France region of France. It is in the suburbs of the city of Paris, from the center of Paris. The centre of Courbevoie is situated from the city limits of Par ...
, inscribed as a 'Monument historique' in 1929, demolished in 1962, façade rebuilt in the park of the château de Bécon
**
Saint-Denis, destroyed in 1962
* Caserne de
Joigny, in what is now quartier Dubois-Thainville
[.]
* Abbot's Palace in
Vezelay (destroyed in 1792)
References
Bibliography
* Caroline Girard, ''Charles-Axel Guillaumot (1730-1807), architecte et administrateur de la manufacture des Gobelins'', , Livraisons d'histoire de l'architecture, 2004, Volume 8, nº
(''lire en ligne'')* Franck Charbonneau, Yann Arribart, Yves Jacquemard, ''Charles-Axel Guillaumot; Premier inspecteur des Carrières de Paris'', ACP, 2013
External links
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on Annales des mines
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Charles-Axel Guillaumot premier Inspecteur des Carrières de Paris, édition ACP
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1730 births
1807 deaths
Artists from Stockholm
Members of the Académie royale d'architecture
18th-century French architects
19th-century French architects