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Daumet, (Pierre-Gérôme-)Honoré
(b Paris, 23 Oct 1826; d Paris, 12 Dec 1911). French architect. A student of Guillaume Abel Blouet and Emile Gilbert, he won the Grand Prix in 1855. His years in Rome culminated with a pioneering study of Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, which presaged a talent for manipulating diverse fragments into a picturesque but rational order. Following an expedition to Macedonia commissioned by Louis-Napoleon and led by the archaeologist Léon Heuzey in 1861, he began a career in public architecture and teaching in Paris. His studio produced nine Grand Prix winners and attracted numerous foreigners, including Charles McKim (1847–1909). In 1867 he was appointed to assist Louis Duc at the Palais de Justice in Paris, beginning a 44-year contribution to the epic 19th-century project of selectively restoring and greatly enlarging the ancient palace complex on the Ile de la Cité. Succeeding Duc in 1879, he revised and executed the project for the Cour d’Appel, scenographically incorporating fragments of buildings from different periods. At Grenoble he built the Palais des Facultés (completed 1879) and enlarged the French Renaissance Palais de Justice (1889–97). But his greatest work was his reconstruction of the château of Chantilly (1875–82), where he incorporated 14th-century foundations and the adjacent châtelet by Jean Bullant into a new museum for the collections of the Duc d’Aumale, son of King Louis-Philippe. It was soon donated to the Institut de France, which elected Daumet a member. He subsequently carried out extensive advisory work for Leopold II of Belgium, who ultimately entrusted his projects to Daumet’s prize pupil, Charles-Louis Girault. In character, Daumet’s work fused the rationalism of his teachers, the sober precision of his friend Emile Vaudremer and the scenography of Charles Garnier.
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