Victor Laloux

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Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux (Tours, 15 November 1850Paris, 1937) was a French Beaux-Arts architect best remembered for the 1900 stone façade of the Paris Gare d'Orsay, now the Musée d'Orsay.

Gare d'Orsay facade
Gare d'Orsay facade

Laloux worked in an eclectic, highly ornamented , academic style and taught at the École des Beaux-Arts workshop. Other work includes the Embassy of the United States in Paris in Paris (with American architect William Delano) and the Basilica of St. Martin in Tours.

Laloux was awarded the first Prix de Rome ever given in 1878, the American AIA Gold Medal in 1922 and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1929.

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