Jacques Hermant

Jacques-René Hermant (7 May 1855 in Paris, France – 5 June 1930 in France) was a French architect,[1][2] one of the most renowned architects of fin-de-siècle Paris.

[3] He was educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, under Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer.

[3][4] He was a rationalist architect, but was a strong advocate for the neoromanticism style of the time, preferably the style of Louis XIII.

Hermant advocated for concrete construction and erected two of the first reinforced concrete buildings in Paris, collaborating with the French engineer Edmond Coignet (1856–1915), who patented his system in 1892.

Hermant was a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and served as chief architect for the city.