Auguste Jean Marie Guenepin (born in Paris on 17 June 1780, died in Paris on 5 March 1842) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

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He was the son of Étienne François Edmé Guenepin (1752-24 December 1827) and Marie Madeleine Delfau (1753–1808) and Aimée Desenne's husband.

In 1805, he won the Grand Prix de Rome for architecture. In 1833, he was appointed at the Institut de France

Institut de France

The Institut de France is a French learned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is the Académie française.The institute, located in Paris, manages approximately 1,000 foundations, as well as museums and chateaux open for visit. It also awards prizes and subsidies, which...

 (Académie des Beaux-Arts

Académie des beaux-arts

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Main works

• Slaughterhouse of Montmartre
  Montmartre
  Montmartre is a hill which is 130 metres high, giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank. Montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on its summit and as a nightclub district...
  
  
• Chapel of L'Île-Saint-Denis
  L'Île-Saint-Denis
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• Church of Noisy-le-Sec
  Noisy-le-Sec
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• Restoration of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
  Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
  The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, just beyond the outskirts of early medieval Paris, was the burial place of Merovingian kings of Neustria...
  
   in Paris
• Restoration of the Sainte-Anne chapel of Notre-Dame de Paris