(b Paris, 4 June 1837; d Paris, 17 May 1920). French architect. He had an exemplary training at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in the atelier of Charles-Auguste Questel and worked in the construction office of the Paris Opéra with Charles Garnier in 1861–6. In 1866 he won the Prix de Rome with a plan for a town house. In 1871, after his return from Italy, he was given charge of the reconstruction of the Pavillon de Flore and the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, under the direction of Hector-Martin Lefuel. In the same year, many of his sketches from travels in France, Italy and Greece appeared in the magazine Intime Club, and in these his taste in decoration and ornament is evident.