1. Edmond Duthoit was the eldest son of Aime Duthoit, the nephew of Louis Duthoit, both picard designers and sculptors, and the father of Louis Duthoit.
12 Facts About Edmond Duthoit
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Edmond Duthoit was born on 1 May 1837 in Amiens, the eldest son of Aime Duthoit and Josephine Pauchot.
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Edmond Duthoit married Rosalie Paillat, born 1845, and together have a son, Louis Duthoit, who will become an architect like his father.
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Edmond Duthoit died on 11 June 1889, at 52 years old, in Amiens.
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Edmond Duthoit was one of the most loyal students of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, who affectionately called him: "My young aide", along with Aime and Louis Duthoit.
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Edmond Duthoit was tasked with, among others, planning certain buildings while his master was forced to constantly do "Tours de France" to visit every site.
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Edmond Duthoit followed on the spot, for his master, the decoration work and the creation of the furniture from 1864 until the fall of Napoleon III in 1870, when, for lack of money, the building site stopped.
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Edmond Duthoit finished the work from 1875 to 1878, notably the decorations for the 11th-century chapel.
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Edmond Duthoit realized an impressive series of drawings on the monuments of the Near Orient and Algeria.
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Edmond Duthoit was tasked by the French government to arbiter a conflict that opposed in 1872, the municipality of Tlemcen and the population, concerning urban development near the great mosque of the city.
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Edmond Duthoit was from 1880 until his death architect-in-chief of the historic monuments of Algeria, and participated in the creation of archaeological searches on the Roman cities of Tipaza, Timgad and Djemila in Algeria, and others in Tunisia.
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Edmond Duthoit was a member of the antiquaries Society of Picardy.