was a French artist, first teacher and director of the Gia Định art school (Trường Mỹ nghệ thực hành Gia Định) founded in 1913 in a suburb of Saigon, 12 years before Victor Tardieu founded the national EBAI in Hanoi.
[1][page needed][nb 1][2][publisher missing][page needed][nb 2] Joyeux studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then, around 1900, went to Saigon, possibly as an architect.
In 1911 Joyeux was appointed principal Inspecteur des Ecoles d'Art Decorative de l'Cochinchine, and in 1913 founded the School of Applied Arts in Gia Dinh.
Joyeux continued at the school till 1926, being followed by Jules Besson and Stéphane Brecq.
The school was merged with Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University in 1971.