Viollet-le-Duc

American  

[vyaw-le-luh-dyk] / vjɔˈlɛ ləˈdük /

noun

1. Eugène Emmanuel 1814–79, French architect and writer.

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Viollet-le-Duc British  

/ vjɔlɛlədyk /

noun

1. Eugène Emmanuel (øʒɛn ɛmanɥɛl). 1814–79, French architect and leader of the Gothic Revival in France, noted for his dictionary of French architecture (1854–68) and for his restoration of medieval buildings

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Viollet-le-Duc

Viollet-le-Duc did not study at the state-run École des Beaux Arts, but came to architecture by means of drawing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Again, much of what the visitor sees today is not actually medieval – but the product of the medieval imagination of Viollet-le-Duc.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

Interest in the Middle Ages was present in previous centuries, for example with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022

But Viollet-le-Duc was also what we would today call a modernist.

From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019

I may remark, however, that Viollet-le-Duc and Fergusson do not understand the subject of Russian architecture, and that their few observations on the matter are nearly all as erroneous as they well can be.

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence