Benjamin MoutonBenjamin Mouton is a French architect. He is architecte en chef des monuments historiques and until 2013 was inspector general of historic monuments.LifeThe son of a physician, Benjamin Mouton was born in the 15th [arrondissement of Paris] and studied in Georges-Henri Pingusson's studio at the école nationale supérieure des beaux-arts then in the École nationale supérieure d'architecture [de Paris-La Villette|UP6 à l'école nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris].AwardsBenjamin Mouton is a knight of the Ordre [national de la Légion d'honneur|Légion d'honneur], officer of the Ordre national [du Mérite] and commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is also commander of the Ordre du Mérite culturel and honorary member of the Romanian national commission for historic monuments.