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Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Summary
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a French Gothic Revival architect, restorer of French medieval buildings, and writer whose theories of rational architectural design linked the revivalism of the Romantic period to 20th-century Functionalism. Viollet-le-Duc was a pupil of Achille Leclère but was