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Pierre Jerome Honore Daumet

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DAUMET, PIERRE JEROME HONORE French architect, member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, was born on Oct. 23, 1826, in Paris. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1846, and in 1855 was awarded the Prix de Rome. In 186 i he was sent on an archaeological expedition to Macedonia, and published, in collaboration with Leon Henzey, an important work on the researches in Thessaly, Thrace and Illyria. He was entrusted with the restoration of many monuments of French architecture, in particular the castle of Chantilly, the Palais de Justice, Paris, and the theatre at Orange. In Nov. 1884 Daumet undertook the construction of the Eglise du Sacre-Coeur on Montmartre, which had already been begun by the architect Ab badie ; but the following year he abandoned the task, after a dis pute with the ecclesiastical authorities. He died in Paris on Dec. 15, 191I.

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