Henri-Alphonse de Gisors (1796–1861) was a 19th-century French architect. His major work is his extension of Salomon de Brosse

Salomon de Brosse

Salomon de Brosse was the most influential early 17th-century French architect, a major influence on François Mansart. Salomon was from a prominent Huguenot family, the grandson through his mother of the designer Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau and the son of the architect Jean de Brosse...

 and Jacques Lemercier

Jacques Lemercier

Jacques Lemercier was a French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included Louis Le Vau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner, drawing from French traditions of the previous century and current Roman practice the fresh, essentially French...

's Palais du Luxembourg between 1836 and 1841 - in 1835 he added a new facade overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens, and in 1836 he extended the lateral façades into the gardens in the same style as the side facing the gardens, creating a new wood-panelled Chamber of Sessions on the first floor. He also restored the arms of France and of the Medici on the fountain in the gardens, and created a 50m long rectangle of water bounded by an alley of plane trees. His work there was completed by Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...

.

He also worked on the Ecole Normale Supérieure

École Normale Supérieure

The École normale supérieure is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles...

(1847).

External links

• Alphonse de Gisors at insecula
• French Senate
• http://www.obs-hp.fr/www/preprints/pp158/pp158.pdf