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Alphonse Alexandre Defrasse (30 September 1860, Paris - 18 March 1939, Paris) was a French architect; best known as the Chief Architect for the Banque de France.
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Alphonse Alexandre Defrasse (30 September 1860, Paris - 18 March 1939, Paris) was a French architect; best known as the Chief Architect for the Banque de France.
His father was a merchant. He entered the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1877, where he was a student of Jules André. His first showing came in 1882, at the Salon des Artistes Français; obtaining a second-class medal. Three years later, his display there earned a travel grant. [1]
He stood for the Prix de Rome three times; winning the Grand Prize in 1886 with a project for the "palace" of the Court of Audit. He was in residence at the Villa Medici from 1887 to 1890. With a stipend from the Académie de France à Rome, he travelled to Greece, where he made studies of various structures at the Sanctuary of Asclepius in Epidaurus. They earned him a medal of honor at the Salon in 1893 then, two years later, were published in a book, with explanatory text by the art historian, Henri Lechat [1]
He briefly served as an Architect of Civil Buildings and National Palaces then, in 1898, was named Chief Architect for the Banque de France; a position he held until his retirement in 1936. In response to a law of 1897, requiring the Banque to have a branch in the capital city of every Department, his first major project involved creating a standard plan for those branches, which was utilized over twenty times. During his years with the Banque, he also executed a few private commissions for mansions, in and around Paris.
He was awarded a Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle of 1900, for his layout of the inner courtyard at the Petit Palais. From 1906, he directed a free workshop at the École. In 1928, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he took Seat #2 for architecture; succeeding Alexandre Marcel (deceased).
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