Lucien Lefort


Frédéric Lucien Didier Lefort was a French architect.

Biography

Frédéric Lucien Didier Lefort was born on January 6, 1850, in Sens, Yonne, France, to Louis Lefort, an architect, and Rosalie Lucile Louise Montégu.
In 1873, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. On January 1, 1877, he was appointed assistant architect in the service of Louis Desmarest, the architect of the Seine-Inférieure department. He later became the chief architect of Seine-Inférieure. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen in 1884. In 1886, he was one of the founding members of the society of the Amis des monuments rouennais.
He resided in Rouen and was the son-in-law of the architect Juste Lisch.

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