Viollet le-Duc

Viollet le-Duc

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (Paris, January 27, 1814-Lausanne, September 17, 1879) was an architect, archaeologist and French writer. Famous for its interpretative "restorations" of medieval buildings, it was an important architect of the Gothic revival. It represents one of the most important figures of the French school, which rejected the teaching of the School of Fine Arts, replacing it with practice and travel in France and Italy.