Viollet-le-Duc

American  

[vyaw-le-luh-dyk] / vyɔˈlɛ 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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Example Sentences

We leave the show realizing that Viollet-le-Duc was one of the world’s great pictorial thinkers, whose graphic curiosity recognized no boundaries between geology, anatomy and architecture.

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

The current debates and controversies have uncovered a deeper admiration for Viollet-le-Duc and his architectural changes than might have been apparent a quarter century ago.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2020

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

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

The disposition of the parts of a tenth-century church, as defined by Viollet-le-Duc Of this class are many monastic churches, as will be evinced by the inclusion of a cloister in the diagram plan.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)