Louis Duc

French architect

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In Western architecture: France
Louis Duc’s Palace of Justice, Paris (1857–68), articulated with a powerful Doric order, is a major expression of Beaux-Arts ideals, but it is Charles Garnier’s Paris opera house (1862–75; later called the Palais Garnier) that is widely regarded as the climax of 19th-century French classicism.…
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