Guillaume Tronchet (22 October 1867 – 7 February 1959) was a French architect. His work was part of the
architecture event in the
art competition at the
1928 Summer Olympics
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.
Life
Tronchet was born in
Villeneuve-sur-Lot,
Lot-et-Garonne. He studied at the
École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studio of
Louis-Jules André, then in 1890 in that of
Victor Laloux. Gaining his diploma in 1891, in 1892 he won the
Deuxième Second Grand Prix de Rome with his design entitled "Un musée d'artillerie".
For
Fernand Halphen
Fernand Gustave Halphen (18 February 1872 – 16 May 1917) was a French Jewish composer.
Life and career
Fernand Halphen was the son of Georges Halphen, a diamond merchant, and of Henriette Antonia Stern (1836–1905), who was from the Stern ban ...
he built the
château Mont-Royal
The Château Mont-Royal is a French castle in La Chapelle-en-Serval, Oise, built for Fernand Halphen by the architect Guillaume Tronchet, and currently used as the Chateau Hotel Mont Royal.
History
The building was to offer his wife a view ...
at
La Chapelle-en-Serval
La Chapelle-en-Serval is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
See also
* Communes of the Oise department
The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following in ...
near
Chantilly (
Oise). After having rejected a project in the Anglo-Norman style by the architect
René Sergent, then a first project in a medieval style (drawings in the collection of the
Musée d'Orsay
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), Halphen decided on the second design, by Guillaume Tronchet : a château in the
Louis XVI style celebrating hunting on the exterior and music in the interior. Built from 1907 to 1911, the building (now a hotel) was a great architectural success. Head architect of civil buildings and national palaces, in 1929 Tronchet was entrusted with the construction (in only 8 months) of a new building for the ministry of employment on
place de Fontenoy
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At number 7 is the World Heritage Centre,UNESCOContact and visit Unesco/ref>the headquarters of the UNESCO
...
in the
7th arrondissement of Paris by the minister of employment
Louis Loucheur. He used the most modern materials and techniques and famous decorative artists, such as
frères Martel for the sculpture and
Jacques GrĂĽber for the glass windows.
Tronchet died in
Nice in February 1959. His memory is perpetuated today by a foundation and, during the annual ceremony of the
Académie des Beaux-Arts under the coupole of the
Institut de France, this awards a prize to encourage a young artist (usually an architect).
Main works
*
Château Mont-Royal
The Château Mont-Royal is a French castle in La Chapelle-en-Serval, Oise, built for Fernand Halphen by the architect Guillaume Tronchet, and currently used as the Chateau Hotel Mont Royal.
History
The building was to offer his wife a view ...
,
La Chapelle-en-Serval
La Chapelle-en-Serval is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
See also
* Communes of the Oise department
The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following in ...
(
Oise) (1907–1911)
* Théâtre Ducourneau,
Agen (
Lot-et-Garonne) (1908) : one of the first buildings in France to be constructed in
ciment armé, beneath a strictly neo-classical envelope. The use of cement allowed the installation of balconies with blind-doors.
* Juvisy airport,
Viry-Châtillon (
Essonne) (1908) : the world's first airport
* Central post-office of
Bar-le-Duc (
Meuse) (1928)
*
Ministry of Work,
place de Fontenoy
The Place de Fontenoy () is a square in Paris, France, named after the victory of Maréchal Maurice de Saxe in the Battle of Fontenoy.
At number 7 is the World Heritage Centre,UNESCOContact and visit Unesco/ref>the headquarters of the UNESCO
...
,
Paris (VII arrondissement) (1929)
* HĂ´tel des Postes Thiers,
Nice, (
Alpes-Maritimes
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) (1931) : brick building, legend has it recycling plans which had originally been intended for Lille.
* Théâtre Georges Leygues de
Villeneuve-sur-Lot (
Lot-et-Garonne), in collaboration with
Gaston Rapin
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People
First name
*Gaston I, Count of Foix (1287–1315)
*Gaston II, Count of Foix (1308–1343)
*Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331–1391)
*Gaston I ...
(1935)
* Lycée Nicéphore Niepce,
Chalon-sur-SaĂ´ne
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It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the largest city in the department; h ...
(
SaĂ´ne-et-Loire
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SaĂ´ne-et-Loire is Bo ...
)
References
External links
Guillaume Tronchet's biography at AGORHA
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1867 births
1959 deaths
People from Villeneuve-sur-Lot
20th-century French architects
Prix de Rome for architecture
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Olympic competitors in art competitions