Léon Vaudoyer (; 7 June 1803 – 9 February 1872) was a French architect.

Biography

Vaudoyer was born in Paris, the son of architect Antoine Vaudoyer. With his contemporaries Félix Duban, Henri Labrouste, and Louis Duc he became a leading light in architectural circles in the 1830s. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1826. In 1838 he won the design competition for the hôtel de ville in

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(unrealized), and from 1845 onwards he (with Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet) enlarged the buildings of the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs (now the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers). In 1852 he was given responsibility for reconstructing the Sorbonne (unrealized), and also for designing the polychrome Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure in

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References

Bibliography

* Théodore Ballu: ''Notice sur M. Léon Vaudoyer''. Firmin Didot Frères, Paris 1873. * Barry Bergdoll, Daphné Doublet, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Marie-Laure Crosnier Leconte: ''Les Vaudoyer : une dynastie d'architectes''. Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1991. . * David van Zanten: ''Designing Paris : the architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer''. MIT Press, 1987. .

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