Léon Vaudoyer
Léon Vaudoyer was a French architect.Biography
Vaudoyer was born in Paris, the son of architect Antoine Vaudoyer.
He was one of the "romantic" Beaux-Arts architects influenced by Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte, along with his contemporaries Félix Duban, Henri Labrouste, and Louis Duc.
He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1826. In 1838 he won the design competition for the hôtel de ville in Avignon, and from 1845 onwards he enlarged the buildings of the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs. In 1852 he was given responsibility for reconstructing the Sorbonne, and also for designing the polychrome Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure in Marseille.
Juste Lisch and Edmond Paulin were among his students.
