Joseph Antoine Bouvard - Artist Info

About Joseph Antoine Bouvard

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Antoine Bouvard
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    Joseph-Antoine Bouvard is a French architect, born on February 19, 1840 in Saint-Jean-de-Bournay (Isère), and died on November 5, 1920 in Marly-le-Roi (Yvelines).

    He is one of the sons of Joseph Bouvard, plasterer, and Marie Magdelaine Rostaing.

    Orphaned father in 1843, his mother remarried in 1844 with Gaspard Lawrence, wheelwright, in Vienne (Isère) where, from this union, was born his half brother Florentin Laurent, contractor of public works. The latter received the Legion of Honor from the hands of his brother Joseph-Antoine Bouvard on November 28, 1900. His mother died in Vienna in 1853.

    He is the pupil of Hugues Quenin, architect in Vienna.

    In 1864, Bouvard studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Super...

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