Jean-Louis Pascal (4 June 1837 – 17 May 1920) was an academic French architect.

Life

Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the

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and Charles-Auguste Questel. He won the Grand

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for Architecture in 1866, which put him in residency at the

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in Rome from 1867 through 1870. After brief service in the Franco-Prussian War, he returned to Paris to assist

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with the restoration of the Louvre, and succeeded Questel as the head of his own old atelier. In 1875, his star rising in the academy system, Pascal was appointed the head architect for the

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upon the death of the previous architect,