André Gutton (8 January 1904 – 10 November 2002) was a French architect. Gutton became employed by the French government in 1927 as a town planner, and was successively chief architect of civil buildings and palaces in 1936. He served as chief architect of the Institute of France during 1943–1969, and after

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he was employed in

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, in which he redesigned part of the city and in 1952 had a number of roads widened to allow easier passage for modern traffic. He was chief architect of the Paris Opera (1950–1954), and a professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1949–1958) and at the Institute of Urban Planning at the

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(1944–1952).

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* 1904 births 2002 deaths People from Fontenay-sous-Bois 20th-century French architects {{France-architect-stub