The concours de façades de la ville de Paris was an architecture competition organized by the Conseil Municipal of Paris in the Third Republic, at the very end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.

History

The contest was held annually between the first on 16 December 1897 and the late 1930s, with an interruption during

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. It recognized several buildings completed during the year. In instituting the contest, the city of Paris took inspiration from Concours d'architecture de la Ville de Bruxelles (1872-1876) and the

Prix Godecharle The Prix Godecharle (), also known in English as the Godecharle Prize or the Godecharle Contest, is a contest for art students, the winners of which are granted a scholarship allocated by the Godecharle Foundation. The prize allows young talents, un ...

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. The Parisian contest was originally set up after the creation of the

Rue Réaumur ''Ruta graveolens'', commonly known as rue, common rue or herb-of-grace, is a species of the genus ''Ruta'' grown as an ornamental plant and herb. It is native to the Mediterranean. It is grown throughout the world in gardens, especially for it ...

in 1897 in order to promote the construction of original and attractive buildings on that street following the relaxation of Baron Haussmann's strict rules of architecture. Initially restricted to the Rue Réaumur, the competition was soon extended to the whole of Paris. Most years saw roughly 57 buildings entering the competition, designed by 55 or so architects, usually resulting in six winners. Every year until the first world war, the jury was made up of five members of the Conseil Municipal de Paris : Quentin-Bauchart, Ernest Caron, Froment-Meurice, Chérioux, Ballières, Joseph Antoine Bouvard, director of Architectural Services, and Nicolas Sauger (1838-1918), architectural overseer for the city of Paris. Lastly two jury members were elected by the contestants annually and in 1904 they were;

Jean-Louis Pascal Jean-Louis Pascal (4 June 1837 – 17 May 1920) was an academic French architect. Life Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts by Émile Gilbert and Charles-Auguste Questel. He won the Grand P ...

and

Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer (6 February 1829 – 7 February 1914) was a French people, French architect. He won the prix de Rome and designed several public buildings in France, particularly in Paris, four of which have been designated ''Monum ...

Winners

(partial list) * 1898: **

Hector Guimard Hector Guimard (, 10 March 1867 – 20 May 1942) was a French architect and designer, and a prominent figure of the Art Nouveau style. He achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Beranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building i ...

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castel Béranger The Castel Béranger is a residential building with thirty-six apartments located at 14 rue de la Fontaine in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed by the architect Hector Guimard, and built between 1895 and 1898. It was the first res ...

'', 14 rue Jean-de-La-Fontaine,

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. ** Georges Debrie, 24 rue du Roi-de-Sicile,

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** Charles Breffendille, 18 rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs,

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** Louis-Pierre Marquet, 204 rue de Grenelle, 7th ** Henri Bunel and Fernand Dupuis, 39 rue d'Antin, 2nd ** Michel Rabier, 87 boulevard de la Villette, 10th * 1899: ** Richard Bouwens van der Boijen, 8 rue de Lota, 16th. ** 17 avenue de Breteuil,

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** Eugène Bruneau, 270 boulevard Raspail, 14th ** Alexandre Marcel, 17 avenue de Breteuil, 7th ** Georges Morin-Goustiaux, 1 rue Le Peletier, 9th ** Gustave Rives, 45 rue du Château-d'Eau, 10th * 1900: ** Edouard Arnaud rue Octave Feuillet, 16th ** Édouard Perrone, 3 rue Danton, 6th ** Gustave Goy, 21 rue Monsieur, 7th ** Jacques Hermant, 85-87 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin ** Paul Legriel, 170 rue de la Convention, 15th ** Albert le Voisvenel, 81 rue Malakoff, 16th * 1901: **

Jules Lavirotte Jules Aimé Lavirotte (March 25, 1864 in Lyon – March 1, 1929 in Paris) was a French architect who is best known for the Art Nouveau buildings he created in the 7th arrondissement in Paris. His buildings were known for his imaginative and exube ...

, '' Lavirotte Building'', 29 avenue Rapp,

. ** Gaston Dupommereulle, 201 bis

Boulevard Saint-Germain The Boulevard Saint-Germain () is a major street in Paris on the Rive Gauche of the Seine. It curves in a 3.5-kilometre (2.1 miles) arc from the Pont de Sully in the east (the bridge at the edge of Île Saint-Louis) to the Pont de la Concord ...

, 7th ** G. Pasquier, 201 boulevard Saint-Germain, 7th ** Alphonse Fiquet, 38-40 rue Condorcet, 9th ** Paul Noël, place des Saussayes, 8th ** Charles Labro, 4-6 rue de l'Abbaye, 6th * 1902: ** Jacques Muscat, 45 rue de Bellechasse, 7th ** Henri-Paul Nénot, 17 rue Lafitte, 9th ** Charles Labouret, 23 rue de Mogador, 9th ** Maurice Hodanger, 38 bis rue Fabert, 7th ** Adolphe Bocage, 133 boulevard de Ménilmontant, 11th ** Henry Delage, 164-166 rue de Courcelles, 17th * 1903: ** Charles Klein, ', 9 rue Claude-Chahu and 2 rue Eugène-Manuel, 16th. ** Stéphane Natanson, 98 avenue de Malakoff, 16th ** Paul Friesé, 98 quai de la Rapée, 12th ** Armand Sibien, 250 rue Saint-Honoré, 8th ** A. Walwein, 96 rue Beaubourg, 4e ** Charles Goujon, 51 rue Damrémont, 18th * 1904: ** Albert Benz, 26 rue François 1er ** Roger Bouvard and Gustave Umbdenstock, 10 rue Alphand, 13th ** Michel Le Tourneau, 36 rue de Bellechasse, 7th ** Louis Parent, 19 rue Spontini, 16th ** Georges Pradelle, 6 rue de Luynes, 7th * 1905: **

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avenue de Wagram The Avenue de Wagram is a street in the 8th and 17th arrondissements of Paris, extending from the Place de Wagram to the Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly ''Place de l'Étoile'', and the site of the Arc de Triomphe). It is long and wide, a ...

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** Théophile Leclerc, 48 rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, 2nd ** Pellechet, 9 rue Pillet-Will, 9th ** Auguste Garriguenc, 48 bis

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Hans-Georg Tersling Hans-Georg Tersling (7 December 1857 – 13 November 1920) was a Danish architect who lived and worked for most of his life on the French Riviera where he became one of the most significant and productive architects of the Belle Époque. His ...

, 41-49 rue de la Faisanderie, 16th ** Joseph Charlet and F. Perrin, 43 rue des Couronnes, 20th * 1906: ** Henri Deglane, 90 rue de Grenelle, 7th ** Louis-Pierre Marquet, 14 rue de la Pitié ** Ernest Picard, 8 rue Dehodencq, 16th ** Louis Sortais, 7 and 7 bis rue de Paradis, 10th * 16eavVH1

1907: ** P. Humbert, 124 avenue Victor-Hugo, 16th ** Jules Lavirotte, 23 avenue de Messine, 17th ** Félix Le Nevé and Albert d'Hont, 44 rue de Bassano, 8th ** Marcel Auburtin, 13 rue de la Paix, 2nd ** Eugène Chifflot, 110 boulevard Raspail, 6th ** Bruno Pelissier, 51 rue Saint-Georges, 9th * 1908: ** Mourzelas, 77 avenue Parmentier, 11th ** Joseph Cassien-Bernard and Paul Friesé, 11 rue Pillet-Will, 9th ** Emile Jarlat, 82 rue Saint-Lazare, 9th ** Charles Stoullig, 83 avenue Henri-Martin, 16th ** Jean Naville and Achille Chauquet, 42, cours de la Reine, 8th ** Roger Bouvard, 23

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, 2nd * 1909: ** Charles Roussi, 64 rue Pergolèse, 16th ** Henry Duray and Godon, 2 avenue de Camoëns, 16th 83 avenue Henri-Martin Paris

** Albert Turin and Maurice Turin, 6 rue Fessart,

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** Jules Formigé and Emmanuel Gonse, 6 rue Dufrenoy, 16th ** Rigaud,

Charles Duval Charles Auguste Duval (5 June 1800, in Beauvais – 13 September 1870, in Granville, Manche, Granville) was a French architect, best remembered for constructing the Théâtre Libre (performing arts center), Théâtre Libre and the Bataclan (theat ...

and Emmanuel Gonse, 6 rue aux Ours, 3rd ** P. Rigaud, Charles Duval, Emmanuel Gonse, 4 bis rue aux Ours, 3rd * 1910: ** Charles Dupuy, 24 avenue de Saxe, 15th ** Prosper Bobin and Maurice Sandoz, 10 rue Pierre-Curie ** Georges Bourgouin, 9 rue Lalo, 16th ** Léon and René Carrier, 84 avenue Niel, 17th ** Ernest Picard, 4 rue Verdi, 16th ** D199 rue de Charenton3

Joseph Charlet and F. Perrin, 24-26 rue Charles-Baudelaire,

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* 1911: ** Raoul Brandon : 199-201 rue de Charenton, 12th ** Théophile Leclerc, 2 rue Léon-Vaudoyer,

** Ernest Picard and Gustave Umbdenstock, 140 rue de la Tour, 16th ** Feugneur, 31 avenue Félix Faure, 15th ** Roger Bouvard, 2 rue de Buenos Aires, 7th **

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, 31-31 bis rue Campagne-Première, 14th * 1912: ** Charles Labro, 19 boulevard Suchet, 16th ** Eugène Chifflot, 149

boulevard Haussmann The Boulevard Haussmann (), long from the 8th to the 9th arrondissement, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards created in Paris by Napoleon III, under the direction of his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann. The Boulevard Haussmann is mo ...

, 8th ** Georges Guiard, 33 rue Daru and 55 boulevard de Courcelles, 8th ** Mathieu Vimort, 3 avenue Élysée-Reclus, 7th * 1913: **

Émile Molinié Émile Joseph Molinié (1 June 1877 in La Rochelle – c. 1964) was a 20th-century French architect. The son of Henri Deglane, occasional collaborator of Charles Nicod, rather active in Cannes, he was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur ...

, 7 rue Lebouis, 14th. * 1922–123 : ** Raoul Brandon, 1 rue Huysmans, 6th * 1926: ** Georges Albenque and Eugène Gonnot, ', 46-48 Rue du Général-Brunet, 19th **

Henri Sauvage Henri Sauvage (May 10, 1873 in Rouen – March 21, 1932 in Paris) was a French architect and designer in the early 20th century. He was one of the most important architects in the French Art Nouveau movement, Art Deco, and the beginning of ar ...

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boulevard Raspail The Boulevard Raspail () is a boulevard of Paris, in France. Its orientation is north–south, and joins boulevard Saint-Germain with place Denfert-Rochereau whilst traversing 7th, 6th and 14th arrondissements. The boulevard intersects maj ...

, 6th * 1928: **

, Guimard Building, 18 rue Henri-Heine, Paris 16th * 1929: ** Joseph Bassompierre, Emmanuel-Elisée Pontremoli, Paul de Rutté, Pierre Sirvin, 36 rue Antoine-Chantin and 47 rue des Plantes, 14th * 1930: ** Gabriel Brun, ''Hôtel Regina de Passy'', 6 rue de la Tour, 16th

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Winners

See also

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