Charles Isabelle

Plombières Baths

Béziers Theatre

Charles-Edouard Isabelle (24 February 1800– 1 May 1880) was a French architect.

Life

Isabelle studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris between 1818 and 1824 with Achille Leclère.^[1] In 1828 he was inspector of works at the Madeleine church in Paris. Isabelle taught architecture at the School of Arts and Crafts of Châlons-en-Champagne between 1845 and 1880. He was appointed Architect of thermal baths. He became an officer of the Legion of Honor (1862).^[2]

Works

Rouen Customs House (1835 – 1842) (destroyed in 1944)
School of Arts and Crafts of Angers (enlargements) (1855-1877)
Baths of Plombières (1869)
Beziers Theater^[3]
Tomb of David d'Angers in Paris
Tomb of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in Paris
Tomb of François Adrien Boieldieu in Rouen

References

^ Yerkes, Carolyn (2017). Drawing After Architecture: Renaissance Architectural Drawings and Their Reception. Centro internazionale di studi di architettura Andrea Palladio. pp. 85–87. ISBN 978-88-317-2674-0.
^ "Recherche - Base de données Léonore". www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
^ Bèges, Janine; Bèges, Alex (2018). Mémoire d'un théâtre: le théâtre de Charles Édouard Isabelle à Béziers : construction, évolution, vie quotidienne (in French). le Chameau malin. ISBN 978-2-490449-04-0.

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