biography
pronunciation:
[labroost]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1801–75)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Paris, France. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1824, and went on to study at the Académie in Rome (1824–30). He developed a theory of romantic rationalism, and his buildings reflect both society's rationalism and technology and its beliefs. His most famous buildings are the Bibliothèque Ste Geneviève, Paris (1843) and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (1860). |
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