Jacques-Marie Huvé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French architect
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Place of Birth: Versailles, Île-de-France, France
About Jacques-Marie Huvé
- Jacques-Marie Huvé (28 April 1783 in Versailles – 1852) was a French architect who practiced in Paris, working in a neoclassical manner that he refined working in the atelier of Percier and Fontaine, Napoleon's chief architects. Huvé was the son of an architect, Jean-Jacques Huvé, with whom he received his earliest instruction.
- He was named supervisor of the works at the Église de la Madeleine in 1808, and at the decease of its architect, Pierre-Alexandre Vignon, in 1828, Huvé was called upon to bring the work to completion.
- With tenacity he pressed the government to release the funding that permitted the church to be completed in 1842. He was appointed architect of the Royal Mails, was admitted a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (the Institut de France's architecture, music, and fine arts section) and served as president of the Société des Beaux-Arts. Huvé trained in his studio the renowned architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.
- At the École des Beaux-Arts he was the professor notably of Gustave Guérin and of Charles Laisné. His only son, Félix Huvé, was mayor of Sablé.
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