Paul Abadie Sr. was a French architect born in Bordeaux (22 July 1783 - 24 December 1868).
[1] Son of a construction artisan, Abadie Sr. began his studies of architecture in the atelier of Bonfin, then continued them in the offices of architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine.
He attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
First employed as inspector at the construction site of the stairway of the Palais du Louvre executed by Percier and Fontaine, he would continue at the finance ministry at the rue de Rivoli.
In 1849 he was joined by his son Paul Abadie when the latter was named diocesan architecte of Angoulême, Perigueux et Cahors.