Henri Deglane (architect)

His first exhibit was in 1880, at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he was awarded a third-class medal.

The following year, his designs for a "fine arts palace" earned him the Prix de Rome.

[3] Over the next two decades, he created numerous homes and shops, as well as monuments to Lazare Carnot, Joseph François Dupleix, William Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, and Guy de Maupassant.

[1] In 1918, he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, taking Seat #1 for architecture, which he held until his death.

[1] He was able to purchase the Château de Laussel, a sixteenth-century castle near Marquay, and spent his later years restoring it.