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Pierre-Marie Bossan (23 July 1814, in
Lyon
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– 23 July 1888, in
La Ciotat
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) was a French
historicist
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architect, a pupil of
Henri Labrouste
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, specialising in
ecclesiastical architecture
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.
Life and work
In 1844 he was appointed architect to the
diocese of Lyon
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, where his major work was the neo-Byzantine
basilica
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of
Notre-Dame de Fourvière
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** Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the ...
(1872–84), on a height dominating
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
. He also designed Lyon's
Église Saint-Georges, an extension to the parish church at Ars-sur-Formans (1862–65) and churches at Régny, Neulise and Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or (1854–56), as well as the pilgrimage basilica of
La Louvesc (1865) in the
department
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Government and military
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of
Ardèche
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In the 12th centu ...]
.
There are funerary monuments designed by Bossan at
Valence.
He is buried in the Cimetière de Loyasse, Lyon.
Selected works
* 1854–56: Cloister of the Visitandines, Lyon
* About 1855: Maison Blanchon, quai Fulchiron, Lyon. A house in Moorish taste
* 1858–62: Église de l'Immaculée-Conception, Lyon
* completed 1859: Petit séminaire de Meximieux (Ain), today the Hôtel de Ville
* 1862–65 Basilica at
Ars-sur-Formans
Ars-sur-Formans is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.
Geography
The village is in the south-western part of the Ain department 33 km north of Lyon and 10 km east of Villefranche ...
,
département de l'Ain
* completed 1865: Église Sainte-Anne, Lyon. Unifinished; closed in 1938 and demolished 1939
[Jean Pelletier, ''Connaître son arrondissement, le 3eme'', éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire, pp. 42-43]
* completed 1865: Église Saint-Maurice,
Echallon
* 1867: Construction begun on the parish church of
Régnié-Durette,
département of the Rhône; the structure was completed in 1895, after his death
* 1872: Construction begun on
Notre-Dame de Fourvière
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* Notre-Dame de Paris, a cathedral in Paris, France
* University of Notre Dame, a university in Indiana, United States
** Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the ...
, Lyon. Inaugurated in 1896
See also
*
Parc des Hauteurs
Parc des Hauteurs () is an urban park on Fourvière hill in Lyon, France. It encompasses the public spaces between the basilique de Fourvière and Loyasse cemetery.
History
Throughout the 20th century, urban planning documents mention vari ...
Notes and references
External links
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L'œuvre de Pierre Bossan, 1891 b
Thiollier, Félix
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1814 births
1888 deaths
Architects from Lyon
19th-century French architects
Historicist architects
French ecclesiastical architects