GARNIER, JEAN LOUIS CHARLES French architect, was born in Paris on Nov. 6, 1825, and died on Aug. 3, 1898. He was the son of a wheelwright and studied draw ing and mathematics at the Petite Ecole de Dessin. He then en tered the atelier of Lebas. Passing the entrance examination of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1842, he studied there in the evening, supporting himself by working by day in the offices of Viollet-le Duc and other architects. In 1848 he won the Grand Prix de Rome and went to the Villa de Medicis. His principal works were the measured drawings of the Forum of Trajan and the temple of Vesta in Rome and the temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli. Garnier's other works include the imperial academy of music, the casino at Monte Carlo, the Bischoffsheim villa at Bordighera, the Hotel du Cercle de la Librairie in Paris and his tombs for the musicians Bizet, Offenbach, Masse and Duprato. In 1874 he was elected a member of the Institute of France.
See L. G. B. P. Larroumet, "La vie de Charles Garnier," in L'Ami des Monuments Francais, xviii., 65, 224; xix., 18 0904-05).