Henri Parent (12 April 1819,

Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a s ...

- 1895,

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) was a French architect.

Biography

His brother Clement was the son in law of

Joseph-Antoine Froelicher Josef Anton or Joseph-Antoine Froelicher or Frölicher (2 November 1790 - 9 January 1866, Paris) was a Swiss architect. Coming from an old middle-class family from Solothurn, Froelicher begins his architectural studies in Switzerland, receiv ...

, Henri Parent restored and transformed several hôtels particuliers in the Faubourg Saint-Germain for high aristocratic families. He worked particularly on the Hôtel de Boisgelin, 47 rue de Varenne (VIIe arrondissement), transformed for the Dukes of Doudeauville and of Bisaccia : putting up panelling originally in the

château de Bercy The Château de Bercy was a Louis XIII château located in Bercy, a part of modern-day Charenton-le-Pont in Paris, France. History The château was constructed beginning in 1658 for Charles-Henri I de Malon de Bercy by architect François Le V ...

, and creating a chapel, a winter garden, a dining room, stables for 25 horses, two rooms for 8 carriages, two cellars and a grand staircase ("escalier d'honneur") panelled with

polychromatic Polychrome is the "practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery or sculpture in multiple colors. Ancient Egypt Colossal statue ...

marble plaques and inspired by the queen's staircase at the

Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 19 ...

. (This building is now the Italian embassy.) He also created three very luxurious Parisian residences: *Hôtel particulier 158

boulevard Haussmann 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 mostly l ...

(VIIIe arrondissement), in the

Louis XVI style Louis XVI style, also called ''Louis Seize'', is a style of architecture, furniture, decoration and art which developed in France during the 19-year reign of Louis XVI (1774–1793), just before the French Revolution. It saw the final phase of t ...

, for

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(1833–1894) in 1867-1874 (today the

Musée Jacquemart-André The Musée Jacquemart-André ( en, Jacquemart-André Museum) is a private museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was created from the private home of Édouard André (1833–1894) and Nélie Jacq ...

). *Hôtel particulier 5 avenue Van Dyck (VIIIe arrondissement), in the

Eclectic style Eclecticism is a kind of mixed style in the fine arts: "the borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them" . Significantly, Eclecticism hardly ever constituted a specific style in art: it is characterized by the fact th ...

with ornaments sculpted by

Jules Dalou Aimé-Jules Dalou (31 December 183815 April 1902) was a 19th-century French sculptor, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism. Early life Born in Paris to a working-class family of Huguenot background, he was raised ...

, for the industrialist Émile Menier in 1870-1872 (now a private residence). *Hôtel particulier 8 rue Alfred de Vigny (VIIIe arrondissement),

Neo Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

in style, for

Henri Menier Henri Emile Anatole Menier (July 14, 1853 – September 6, 1913) was a French businessman and adventurer and a member of the Menier family of chocolatiers. Born in Paris, he was the son of Emile-Justin Menier and grandson to Antoine Brutus Menier ...

in 1880 (today the Conservatoire international de musique). He designed Émile-Justin Menier's tomb, one of the most remarkable in the cimetière du Père-Lachaise (1887). He came second (after Charles Garnier) in the competition to design the new

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. With his brother

Clément Parent François Clément Joseph Parent (1823–1884) was a French architect. Among his work was the castle at Ooidonk. With his brother Henri Parent, he restored the châteaux of Ancy-le-Franc for the Clermont-Tonnerre, Esclimont and Bonnetable fami ...

, he restored the châteaux of Ancy-le-Franc for the Clermont-Tonnerre, Esclimont and Bonnetable families.

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