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Victor Baltard (1805-1874) was a French architect who designed Les Halles market and the Saint-Augustin church in Paris. He also restored several churches and introduced modern frescoes in them.
Victor Baltard (1805-1874) est un architecte français du Second Empire, célèbre pour les Halles de Paris. Il a aussi restauré des églises, réalisé des sépultures et été membre de l'Académie des beaux-arts.
Designed by the academically trained architect Victor Baltard (1805–1874), the Halles Centrales required the rebuilding of an entire neighborhood in the heart of the French capital. Planned on a regular grid and linked by...
Oct 16, 2012 · Baltard not only organised the ordinary receptions of the municipality, but also prestigious ceremonies conveying important political messages, such as those organised for the visit by Queen Victoria (August 1855) and the baptism of the prince imperial (June 1856).
(1805–74).French architect and academic, the son of L. -P. Baltard. As City Architect of Paris, he redecorated and rebuilt many Parisian churches, but his chief works were the iron-and-glass Halles Centrales, Paris (1852–9—demolished)—with Félix-Emmanuel Callet (1792–1854)—and the remarkable Church of St-Augustin (1860–71)—with ...
Oct 31, 2018 · The two giants of 19th-century market design were Victor Baltard in Paris and Horace Jones in London. Baltard, city architect from 1849, was author of Les Halles, the 12 elegant pavilions of which were linked by covered walkways to form an iron metropolis of food – or, as Hugo put it, the belly of Paris.
The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1854 and 1874 in the historic heart of the city.
