Denis Marius Toudoire (

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, November 15, 1852 -

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, March 11, 1922) was a

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. In particular, he built stations for the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), including the main stations: Paris Lyon to Paris, Bordeaux-Saint-Jean and Toulouse-Matabiau. He also realized the

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Biography

Marius Toudoire was the son of Augustin Martin Toudoire and Chritine Élisabeth Joye. He enrolled at the

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in Paris where he studied with

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(1807-1888), he came second at the

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, and with his student

Jean-Louis Pascal Jean-Louis Pascal (4 June 1837 – 17 May 1920) was an academic French architect. Life Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts by Émile Gilbert and Charles-Auguste Questel. He won the Grand Pri ...

(1837-1920) he came first at the Prix de Rome in 1866. He graduated in 1879. He was entrusted by the Board of Directors of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), chaired by Stéphane Adolphe Dervillé, with the construction of the

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in Paris and to have a keen eye on the decoration of this building, particularly in the choice of artists and the execution of the works according to the prescriptions of the Board. He had his offices in 1895 at 88, rue Saint-Lazare. He was the inspector of Civil Construction for the

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, he was the architect of the Palace of the National Manufactures at the

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. He died on March 11, 1922 at his home at 4, rue Sainte-Anne in the

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. A religious service was held on March 14 at the church of Saint-Roch, followed by a burial in the Garches cemetery.

Works

* 1889 to 1898:

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Station of Bordeaux-Saint-Jean. * 1895: Construction for Higarède at 172, rue Marcadet in

. * 1895-1902:

in Paris (including the restaurant Le Train bleu). * from 1903 to 1905: Toulouse-Matabiau station. * 1905 to 1908: Some thirty buildings for the 1908 Franco-British exhibition at

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near

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, in collaboration with

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. * 1910-1913: * The

in collaboration with

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; * Town hall at

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; * Prefecture of

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in Algeria. * 1910: Station of

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(

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). * 1912: Station of

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Acknowledgments

On August 14, 1900 he was named

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for his participation in the

in Paris as architect of the Palace of the National Manufactures. File:L'Esplanade des Invalides, Palais des manufactures nationales, Palais de l'Italie, Pont Alexandre III.jpg File:Paris Exposition Palace of Decorative Arts, Paris, France, 1900 n11.jpg File:Paris Exposition Palace of Decorative Arts, Paris, France, 1900 n8.jpg

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Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée ("Railway Company of Paris to Lyon and the Mediterranean"), also known as the Chemins de fer Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée or simply PLM, established in 1857, was one of Fran ...

Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur French architects

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