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Jean-Louis Pascal (4 June 1837 – 17 May 1920) was an academic French architect.
Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at theÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts byÉmile Gilbert andCharles-Auguste Questel. He won the GrandPrix de Rome for Architecture in 1866, which put him in residency at theVilla Medici in Rome from 1867 through 1870.
After brief service in theFranco-Prussian War, he returned to Paris to assistHector Lefuel with the restoration of the Louvre, and succeeded Questel as the head of his own old atelier. In 1875, his star rising in the academy system, Pascal was appointed the head architect for theNational Library of France upon the death of the previous architect,Henri Labrouste. Pascal brought this long project nearly to completion, contributing interiors and exteriors, the Oval Room, the Salon Voltaire, the periodical room, and the grand staircase.
His other major work includes many monuments and memorial throughout France, the residence and studio of French painterWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau, 75 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris, finished in 1868, and the tomb ofJules Michelet atPère Lachaise Cemetery in 1893.
In 1914, Pascal was awarded both the AmericanAIA Gold Medal in 1914 (the fourth ever awarded) and theRoyal Gold Medal of theRoyal Institute of British Architects. He died in Paris.
Pascal may have had his greatest influence as a teacher, both for French architects and particularly for international students who adapted the lessons of the Beaux-Arts to their home countries. Pascal's atelier was credited with a total of four grand prizes and fifteen second prizes while he was patron.
Among Pascal's many students were:
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