Jean-Camille Formigé

Notable buildings, structures and parks designed by Formigé include the Pont de Bir-Hakeim (1905); the Viaduc d'Austerlitz (1904); the dramatic sloping park in front of the Basilica of Sacre-Coeur in Paris; the Square d'Anvers, the Square des Epinettes and the square in front of the Arenes de Lutece in Paris; the monumental greenhouse of the Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil (1895-1898); the Columbarium at Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris; the restoration of the Roman amphitheater and theater in Arles, France; and the restoration of the Roman theater at Orange, France.

He restored the Abbey of Conques (1878) and the Tower of Saint-Jacques, across from the Louvre, in Paris.

Jean-Camille Formigé was born in 1845 in Le Bouscat, in the Gironde department of France.

He studied architecture during the Second Empire at the Imperial School of Fine Arts in Paris, in the atelier Laisne, and received a post with the Commission of Historic Monuments in 1871.

He became a member of the Commission in 1887, a position he held until 1892, when he became Chief Architect of Historic Monuments.