Paul Abadie

French architect

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Paul Abadie was a French architect known for his work in the Gothic Revival style. He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Lassus and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, prominent figures in the 19th-century Gothic Revival movement in France.1

Abadie is most famous for his restoration and reconstruction of the Cathedral of Saint-Front in Périgueux, France. This Romanesque cathedral, originally built in the 12th century, was significantly altered by Abadie's work, which concluded around 1901. His architectural style, influenced by his mentors, embraced the principles of Gothic construction while adapting them to contemporary needs.21

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…the death of the architect, Paul Abadie, who took inspiration from the 12th-century five-domed Romanesque church of Saint-Front in Périgueux, itself inspired by either Venetian or Byzantine churches. Alongside the monumental terraced stairway of the garden-planted Square Willette below the church entrance runs the only funicular railway in Paris.
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…the death of the architect, Paul Abadie, who took inspiration from the 12th-century five-domed Romanesque church of Saint-Front in Périgueux, itself inspired by either Venetian or Byzantine churches. Alongside the monumental terraced stairway of the garden-planted Square Willette below the church entrance runs the only funicular railway in Paris.
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