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Vaudoyer, Antoine Laurent Thomas
architect; b. Dec. 20, 1756 (at Paris); d. May 27, 1846.
He studied with A. F. Peyre and at the École des Beaux Arts, and won the Grand Prix de Rome in architecture in 1783. In 1793 he established with David Leroy an atelier of architecture at the Louvre. August 25, 1795, when the Institute was created, Vaudoyer became voluntary secretary of the Commission d'Architecture. In 1800 he was appointed architect of the Collège de France and the Sorbonne (Paris), and made extensive additions to those monuments. In 1804 he had charge of the installation of the Institute at the Palais des Quatre Nations. He was associated with L. P. Baltard in publishing Grands Prix d'Architecture, 1804-1831 (Paris, 1818-1834, 2 vols. folio).
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