Jacques-Martin Tétaz (6 March 1818 – 16 October 1865) was a French

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. He was admitted at the

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where he was the student of

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and

Louis-Hippolyte Lebas Louis-Hippolyte Lebas (31 March 1782 in Paris – 12 June 1867 in Paris) was a French architect working in a rational and severe Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical style. Life and career He was trained in the atelier of Percier and Fontain ...

. He was the recipient of the second architecture

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in 1841. He was housed at the

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from 1844 to 1848. He is only known by the

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, which was built between 1861 and 1864.

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1818 births 1865 deaths Architects from Paris 19th-century French architects {{France-architect-stub