Léon Jaussely (9 January 1875 – 28 December 1932) was a French architect and urban planner.

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Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the

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in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Pierre Esquié. Jaussely took the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

for architecture in 1903, and would eventually run his own atelier at the school. Jaussely took the prestigious Prix Chaudesaigues. As a young graduate he was the winner, among five entrants, of the city plan for the expansion of

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. The Plan Jaussely was officially adopted in 1907 and although never completed, it guided the development of the city for decades. Jaussely was also the chief planner of the 1925 International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in

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. Jaussely's individual building designs include the 1931 Palais de la Porte Dorée, built for the Paris

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(with fellow architects Albert Laprade and Léon Bazin), and the 1932 headquarters for the

La Dépêche du Midi ''La Dépêche'', formally ''La Dépêche du Midi'' (), is a regional daily newspaper published in Toulouse in Southwestern France with seventeen editions for different areas of the Midi-Pyrénées region. The main local editions are for Toul ...

in Toulouse. He was the co-founder in 1911 of the French Society of Planners, with Henri Prost and others. He was appointed Officer of the Legion of Honor. 31 - Toulouse - Poste SAINT-AUBIN, 1928 par Léon JAUSSELY (architecte).jpg, Postal office quartier St Aubin de Toulouse, 1928 Bordeaux Centre de tri Saint-Jean art-déco 4.JPG, Postal office of Saint-Jean de Bordeaux, 1929 Immeuble dit de La Dépêche du Midi, Toulouse.jpg, Building of ''La Dépêche'', rue Alsace-Lorraine in

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1932

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