Charles-Louis Girault (; 27 December 1851 – 26 December 1932) was a French architect.

Biography

Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honoré Daumet at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He received the first Prix de Rome, awarded him in 1880 on the basis of a design for a hospital for sick children along the Mediterranean Sea. Consequently, he became a member of the French Academy in Rome, staying there from 1881 until 1884.

Charles Girault

He supervised the work of three other architects at the Grand Palais (1897–1900), and worked at the Petit Palais from 1896 until 1900. He was elected to membership in the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1902. Girault designed the Royal Galleries of Ostend, built from 1902 to 1906. In 1905 he was chosen by Leopold II of Belgium to design the Arcades du Cinquantenaire in Brussels; also for Brussels, he designed the Royal Museum for Central Africa, begun in 1904 and finished in 1910.

Charles Girault

Girault died in Paris on December 26, 1932 one day before what would have been his 81st birthday .

Charles Girault

Selected works

External links

Archive Charles Girault, Royal museum for central Africa

19th-century French architects

20th-century French architects

1851 births

1932 deaths

People from Nièvre

Prix de Rome for architecture

Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts alumni

Historicist architects

Members of the Académie des beaux-arts

Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal