Lucien Lefort

Frédéric Lucien Didier Lefort (January 6, 1850, in Sens – April 8, 1916, in Rouen, France) was a French architect.

Biography Frédéric Lucien Didier Lefort was born on January 6, 1850, in Sens, Yonne, France, to Louis Lefort, an architect, and Rosalie Lucile Louise Montégu.

In 1873, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. On January 1, 1877, he was appointed assistant architect in the service of Louis Desmarest, the architect of the Seine-Inférieure department. He later became the chief architect of Seine-Inférieure. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen in 1884. In 1886, he was one of the founding members of the society of the Amis des monuments rouennais.

He resided in Rouen and was the son-in-law of the architect Juste Lisch.

Honors

1885: First class medal at the Salon des Artistes Français 1889: Double gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle 1889: Knight of the Legion of Honour (decree of 29 October 1889)

Works

Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Rouen West wing of the Rouen Courthouse Tide gauges of the Grand Port Maritime of Rouen Sacristy and presbytery of the Saint-Maclou Church, Rouen Porch of the Church of Saint-Maclou, Rouen Manoir de Saint-Yon, Rouen (1881) Municipal theater of Sens (1882) Normal School for Female Teachers, Rouen Archives of Seine-Inférieure, Rouen (1892) (destroyed) Restoration of the Saint-Laurent Church, Rouen Schools in Saint-Saëns, Sahurs, Bosc-Roger-sur-Buchy, Longuerue Dieppe Restoration of the Saint-Jacques Church, Dieppe and the Saint-Rémy Church, Dieppe Castle in Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville, around 1898. Castle in Bosnormand (Eure), around 1908. Restoration of the Saint-Ouen Church in Darnétal, and the churches in Moulineaux, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, Veulettes-sur-Mer Restoration of the Château de Robert le Diable in Moulineaux Covered market in Joigny