Jean-Baptiste Lesueur

In 1811, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Charles Percier and Auguste Famin [fr].

During this time, in 1842, the city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye bought the seventeenth-century Hôtel de la Rochefoucault, to make it the Town Hall.

In 1848, after the Revolution, he was appointed to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he took Seat #2 for architecture; succeeding Antoine Vaudoyer (deceased).

Following the death of Abel Blouet, in 1852, he was named Professor of Theory at the École, and a member of the jury.

[1] During his later years, he published two works, La basilique Ulpienne (Rome) Restauration exécutée en 1823 (1877), and Histoire et théorie de l'architecture (1879).