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.

Life

Tronchet was born in

Villeneuve-sur-Lot Villeneuve-sur-Lot (; in the Languedocien dialect of Occitan language: ''Vilanuèva d'Òlt'' ) is a town and commune in the southwestern French department of Lot-et-Garonne. The commune was formerly named ''Villeneuve-d'Agen''. Villeneuve-sur-L ...

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in the studio of

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, then in 1890 in that of

Victor Laloux Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux (15 November 1850 – 13 July 1937) was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher. Life Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, with his studies i ...

. 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 he built the château Mont-Royal at La Chapelle-en-Serval near

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). After having rejected a project in the Anglo-Norman style by the architect

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, then a first project in a medieval style (drawings in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay), Halphen decided on the second design, by Guillaume Tronchet : a château in the

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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 in the

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by the minister of employment

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. He used the most modern materials and techniques and famous decorative artists, such as frères Martel for the sculpture and

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for the glass windows. Tronchet died in

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in February 1959. His memory is perpetuated today by a foundation and, during the annual ceremony of the

Académie des Beaux-Arts An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, ...

under the coupole of the

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, this awards a prize to encourage a young artist (usually an architect).

Main works

* Château Mont-Royal, La Chapelle-en-Serval (

) (1907–1911) * Théâtre Ducourneau,

Agen The commune of Agen (, ; ) is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. It lies on the river Garonne southeast of Bordeaux. Geography The city of Agen lies in the southwestern department ...

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Lot-et-Garonne Lot-et-Garonne (, oc, Òlt e Garona) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019.ciment armé, beneath a strictly neo-classical envelope. The use of cement allowed the installation of balconies with blind-doors. * Juvisy airport,

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Essonne Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.Bar-le-Duc Bar-le-Duc (), formerly known as Bar, is a Communes of France, commune in the Meuse (department), Meuse Departments of France, département, of which it is the capital. The department is in Grand Est in northeastern France. The lower, more moder ...

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) (1928) * Ministry of Work, place de Fontenoy,

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(VII arrondissement) (1929) * Hôtel des Postes Thiers,

, ( Alpes-Maritimes) (1931) : brick building, legend has it recycling plans which had originally been intended for Lille. * Théâtre Georges Leygues de

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References

External links

Guillaume Tronchet's biography at AGORHA
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tronchet 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