Léon Vaudoyer () (7 June 1803 – 9 February 1872) was a French architect.

Biography

Vaudoyer was born in Paris, the son of architect Antoine Vaudoyer. He was one of the "romantic" Beaux-Arts architects influenced by Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte, along with his contemporaries

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, and Louis Duc. He won the Grand

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in 1826. In 1838 he won the design competition for the hôtel de ville in Avignon (unrealized), and from 1845 onwards he (with

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) enlarged the buildings of the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs (now the

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). In 1852 he was given responsibility for reconstructing the

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(unrealized), and also for designing the polychrome Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure in

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. Juste Lisch and Edmond Paulin were among his students.

Sources

* Théodore Ballu: ''Notice sur M. Léon Vaudoyer''. Firmin Didot Frères, Paris 1873. * Barry Bergdoll, ''Léon Vaudoyer: Historicism in the Age of Industry'', MIT Press, 1994. . * Barry Bergdoll, Daphné Doublet, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Marie-Laure Crosnier Leconte: ''Les Vaudoyer : une dynastie d'architectes''. Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1991. . * David van Zanten: ''Designing Paris : the architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer''. MIT Press, 1987. .
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaudoyer, Leon 1803 births 1872 deaths 19th-century French architects École des Beaux-Arts alumni Architects from Paris Prix de Rome for architecture Members of the Académie des beaux-arts