Victor Louis

This article is about an architect. For the Soviet journalist, see Victor Louis (journalist).

Victor Louis

Victor Louis (10 May 1731 – 2 July 1800) was a French architect, disqualified on a technicality from winning the Prix de Rome in architecture in 1755.

Louis' masterpiece is the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux of 1780. He also designed other theatres, including the theatre of the Comédie-Française on the rue de Richelieu (1790) and the Théâtre National de la rue de la Loi (1793, demolished). Other buildings include the Intendance in Besançon (completed 1776), the garden galleries of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1781–1784), and the Château du Bouilh near Bordeaux (1786-1789, unfinished). A full biography by Charles Marionneau was published in Bordeaux in 1881. In 1770 he married the pianist and composer Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon.

Gallery

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  Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
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  Plan of the Théâtre de Bordeaux
  (at the level of the second loges)
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  Central staircase of the Théâtre de Bordeaux
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  Comédie-Française
  (as designed by Louis)
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  Auditorium of the Comédie-Française
  (as designed by Louis)
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  Intendance, Besançon (garden facade)
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  Design for the garden galleries of the Palais-Royal
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  Perspective view of the garden galleries of the Palais-Royal
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  Château of Le Bouilh
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  Auditorium of the Théâtre-National
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  Architectural drawings of the Théâtre-National

References

Notes

Sources

• Braham, Allan (1980). The Architecture of the French Enlightenment. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520067394.
• John, Richard (1998). "Louis, Victor [Louis-Nicolas]" in Turner 1998, vol. 19, pp. 725–726.
• Lacouture, Jean (1994). Le Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux, ou L’Opéra des Vendanges, photographs by Dominique Thillard. Paris: Caisse nationale des monuments historiques et des sites. ISBN 9782858221257.
• Marionneau, Charles (1881). Victor Louis, Architecte du Théâtre de Bordeaux: Sa vie, ses travaux et sa correspondance 1731-1800. Bordeaux: G. Gounouilhou View at Google Books..
• Prudent, Henri; Guadet, Paul (1903). Les salles de spectacle construites par Victor Louis à Bordeaux, au Palais-Royal et à la place Louvois. Paris: Librairie de la construction moderne. OCLC 7065687.
• Turner, Jane, editor (1998). The Dictionary of Art, reprinted with minor corrections, 34 volumes. New York: Grove. ISBN 9781884446009.