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Join the Bay Area Wikipedians for a potluck Wiknic in the Mission District of San Francisco on Sat July 12! Sign up here. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (French: [øʒɛn vjɔlɛ lə dyk]; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous for his restoration of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne, and Château de Roquetaillade in the Bordeaux region. His writings on decoration and on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a fundamental influence on a whole new generation of architects, including all the major Art Nouveau artists: Antoni Gaudí, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Henry van de Velde, Henri Sauvage and the École de Nancy, Paul Hankar, Otto Wagner, Eugène Grasset, Émile Gallé, and Hendrik Petrus Berlage. He also influenced the first modern architects,

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia French architect and author (1814–1879) "Viollet-le-Duc" redirects here; not to be confused with Violette Leduc . Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Photograph by Nadar Born Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc ( 1814-01-27 ) 27 January 1814 Paris, France Died 17 September 1879 (1879-09-17) (aged 65) Lausanne , Switzerland Occupation Architect Awards Royal Gold Medal (1864) Signature Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc ( French: [ øʒɛn vjɔlɛ lə dyk ] ; 27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) was a French architect and author, famous

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