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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Alexis Paccard
- Alexis Paccard (12 June 1813 – 18 August 1867) was a French architect. Paccard entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1830 in the workshops of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas and Jean-Nicolas Huyot.
- He won the Second Grand Prix in 1835 for a medical school, and won the Prix de Rome in 1841 for a "Palace of an ambassador in a foreign country."His work includes a study of the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, which also earned him a medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855. On his return he became official inspector and architect of public buildings.
- He worked at the Louvre and the Tuileries under the direction of Louis Visconti.
- In 1854, he was an architect of the Château de Rambouillet, then Palace of Fontainebleau.
- In December 1863 he became professor of architecture at the Ecole, and among his students was Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas.
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