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Vaudoyer, Léon
b. June 7, 1803 (at Paris); d. Feb. 9, 1872.
A son of A. L. T. Vaudoyer. He studied architecture with his father and Lebas and at the École des Beaux Arts (Paris). In 1826 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome. While in Rome he made the monument to Poussin at the church of S. Lorenzo-in-Lucina. In 1853 he was appointed inspecteur des édifices diocésains, and in 1855 architect of the cathedral of Marseilles, which had been begun in 1852. He won a medal of the first class at the Salon of 1855.
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