Charles Lemaresquier

Charles Henri-Camille Lemaresquier (October 16, 1870, Sète - January 6, 1972, Paris) was a French architect and teacher.

Lemaresquier was born in Sète, in southern France, into a family of artists, and apprenticed to a Parisian architect at the age of 16. He was accepted into the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 1888, and by 1890 was in the atelier of Victor Laloux, who had taken over from his mentor Louis-Jules André after André's death.

In the summer and fall of 1927, Lemaresquier represented France on the jury of nine European architects judging the high-profile Palace of Nations competition, assessing the 375 entries alongside fellow judges such as Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Victor Horta, and Josef Hoffman.^[1]

Among his students were Max Ingrand and David Moreira da Silva. The architect held seat #6 of the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts from 1938 until his death in 1972.^[2]

In 1900 Lemaresquier married Germaine Ribaucourt (1874-1951),^[3] and their union produced four children. His son Noël Le Maresquier (1903–1982) trained in his father's atelier, modified the family surname, and became an architect with a similar career with similar honors. Lemaresquier was also the father-in-law of French Prime Minister Michel Debré, who married the architect's daughter Anne-Marie.^[4]

Lemaresquier's work includes:

• headquarters for grocery retailer Félix Potin, No. 51 rue Réaumur, 1910
• apartment building, 2 rue Coustou, Paris, 1926^[5]
• National Circle of Armies, 8 Place Saint Augustin, on the former site of the Pépinière Barracks, Paris, with architectural sculpture by François-Léon Sicard, Paul Landowski, Jean Antoine Injalbert and Jean Boucher,^[6] 1927^[5]
• Juncasse veterinary school, 23 avenue Henri-Guillaumet, Toulouse, 1931
• Palais Berlitz, built as the Palais du Hanovre, 26-34 Rue Louis Legrand, Paris, 1932^[5]
• work at the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, Paris, 1961^[5]

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