Lucien Lefort
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Frédéric Lucien Didier Lefort was born on January 6, 1850, in Sens, Yonne, France, to Louis Lefort, an architect, and Rosalie Lucile Louise Montégu.[3]
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.[4] 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[5] 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)[6]
