Jules Victor Abel Eugène Jean Comte (17 October 1846,

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- 14 December 1912, Paris) was a French

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and government official.

Life and work

He studied at the Lycée Bonaparte (now the

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), and was hired by the Ministry of State in 1866. In 1881, he was appointed Inspector General of the fine arts schools. Five years later, he was named Director of civic buildings, in charge of the headquarters of what is now the Ministry of National Education. From that time, through 1901, he was involved in expanding the

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. He also participated in restoration projects at the

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, and the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud. He was awarded the rank of Commander in the

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in 1895. The following year, he founded the ', which passed to

Raymond Woog Raymond Emmanuel Woog (25 October 1875, Paris - 10 May 1949, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French painter, designer and illustrator. Biography He was a student of Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1903, he was one of the exhibitors at ...

upon his death. He was elected to the

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in 1909, where he took Seat #2 in the "Unattached" section; succeeding Émile Michel (deceased).

Publications

* Jules Comte, '' Tapisserie de Bayeux avec planches'', J. Rothschild, 1878

Sources

Biographical data and references
from the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques @ La France Savante

@ the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art

External links

Entry for Comte
@ the

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