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Jules Pellechet

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Jules Antoine François Auguste Pellechet (13 October 1829 - 18 September 1903) was a French architect, notable for his designs for buildings in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom and as an architect in the artillery technical section of France's Ministry of War.

Life

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Born in Paris to the architect Auguste Pellechet (1789-1871), he studied at the École polytechnique and the École des beaux-arts (class of 1850) in the studio of Abel Blouet. In 1869 he became a member of the société centrale des architectes français[1] and in 1899 was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur. He died in Paris. His daughter Marie began compilation of Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France.

Selected designs

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Paris

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Other

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  • Central artillery store, ministry of war
  • Château du Plessis, Blanzy, 1872 (neo-Gothic modifications to the curtain walls, skylights, farmyard, unrealised design for the tour Magdeleine; all for the comte de Barbentane)
  • Châtaigneraie de Retz, Chambourcy, around 1880.
  • Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, United Kingdom, 1869-1871.
  • Villa Huffer, Via Nazionale, Rome, Italy, 1880-1883 (base of the Bank of Italy).

Works

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  • Jules Pellechet, Lettres d'Italie : 1856-1857, publiées par Marie et Catherine Pellechet, Paris, 1894, II+202 p

References

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  1. ^ (in French) Ruth Fiori, Pellechet, Jules Antoine François Auguste sur le site du comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques.