Louis-Hippolyte Lebas

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Church Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paris

Louis-Hippolyte Lebas (Paris, 31 March 1782 – Paris, 12 June 1867) was a French architect working in a rational and severe Neoclassical style, who was trained in the atelier of Percier and Fontaine, the favoured architects of Napoleon. After Napoleon's exile he remained the assistant of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, whose design for the sober Chapelle Expiatoire over the burial site of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette he oversaw in construction (1816-1824). He also assisted Éloi Labarre (1764—1833) in completing the Palais Brongniart (1813-1826), the seat of the Paris Bourse, named after its architect, Alexandre Brongniart.

One of his most known work is the Parisian church Notre-Dame-de-Lorette for which he was commissioned in 1823 and that he achieved in 1836.^[1] He built the former prison of Petite Roquette, (1826-1836, demolished 1974), which was the first example in France of a progressive panoptic prison.

Lebas taught the History of Architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts, from 1840 to 1863. In this teaching role, applying the art-historical method of Johann Joachim Winckelmann to the study of historical architecture, he set a mark on several generations of young French architects.

His daughter married the historian and civil servant Léon Halévy.

Notes

↑ He is commemorated nearby with the rue Louis-Hippolyte Lebas, Paris IXe.

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Vassiliki Petridou, "La doctrine de l'Imitation dans l’architecture française dans la première moitie du XIXe siècle. Du Neo-classicisme au Romantisme `a travers l’œuvre de Louis Hippolyte Lebas (1782-1867)", Doctoral thesis Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, 1992, vol II.
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Name	Lebas, Louis-Hippolyte
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Short description	French architect
Date of birth	31 March 1782
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Date of death	12 June 1867
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