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Henri Labrouste

French architect
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Henri Labrouste (born May 11, 1801, Paris, France—died June 24, 1875, Fontainebleau) was a French architect important for his early use of iron frame construction. Labrouste entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1819, won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1824, and spent the period from 1825 to 1830 in Italy, after which he opened a studio in Paris. Labrouste is primarily remembered for the two Parisian libraries he designed. The Bibliothèque...

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