Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
French architect (1814-1879)
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Restored France's most iconic medieval buildings—Notre-Dame, Mont Saint-Michel, Carcassonne—and basically invented modern architectural conservation in the process. Viollet-le-Duc made the past look new again, whether it needed it or not.
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Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 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.
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