Viollet-le-Duc and the Restoration of the Built Environment

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Viollet-le-Duc and the Restoration of the Built Environment

A couple of days ago on 27 January 2025 was the 211th anniversary of the birth of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879), who was born on 27 January in 1814.

Viollet-le-Duc was an architect who specialized in restoring medieval monuments at a time when France and Europe generally was passing through the tumultuous change of the industrial revolution and was finding novel ways to live with the historical past. Viollet-le-Duc was a contemporary of others also negotiating this change, such as Baron von Haussmann and John Ruskin, who saw their task in the modern age differently, but who were all responding to different aspects of the same social forces.

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