Jean-Jacques-Marie Huvé (; 28 April 1783,
Versailles
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– 23 November 1852,
Paris
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) was a French architect who practiced in
Paris
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, working in a
neoclassical manner that he refined working in the ''atelier'' of
Percier and Fontaine
Percier and Fontaine was a noted partnership between French architects Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine.
History
Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich and grand, consciously archa ...
, Napoleon's chief architects.
Biography
He was the son of the architect,
Jean-Jacques Huvé, from whom he received his earliest instruction. He was named supervisor of the works at the
Église de la Madeleine in 1808, and at the decease of its architect, , in 1828, he was called upon to bring the work to completion. His tenacity finally pressed the government to release the funding that permitted the church to be completed in 1842.
He was appointed architect of the Royal Mails, was admitted a member of the (the
Institut de France
The ; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the . It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute manages approximately ...
's architecture, music, and fine arts section) and served as president of the Société des Beaux-Arts.
As a teacher, he trained renowned architect
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (; 27 January 181417 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, ...
in his studio. At the
École des Beaux-Arts
; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...
, his notable students included and .
His only son, Félix Huvé (1816-1887), was Mayor of
Sablé-sur-Sarthe.
Principal works
*
Église de la Madeleine, Paris, which he finished 1828-42
*
Château de Saint-Ouen, built on behalf of
Louis XVIII
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for
Zoé Talon, comtesse du Cayla, 1821-1822.
*
Château de Compiègne
The Château de Compiègne is a French château, a former royal residence built for Louis XV and later restored by Napoleon. Compiègne was one of three seats of royal government, the others being Versailles and Fontainebleau. It is located i ...
*
Salle Ventadour, 1826–1829
Sources
* Bruno Centorame (Ed.), ''Autour de la Madeleine: art, littérature et société'', Paris, AAVP, 2005.
* Louis Hautecoeur, ''Histoire de l'architecture classique en France'', Paris, Picard, 1943-1957.
* François Loyer, ''Histoire de l'architecture française. T. 3, De la Révolution à nos jours'', Paris, Mengès-CNMHS, 1999.
External links
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1783 births
1852 deaths
Architects from Versailles
19th-century French architects
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts