Charles-Louis Girault was a French

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 architect

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Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire

Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire

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, he studied with Honoré Daumet

Honoré Daumet

Pierre Jérôme Honoré Daumet was a French architect.Daumet was the winner of the Prix de Rome in 1855, and in 1861 conducted a treasure-hunting expedition to Macedonia at the request of Napoleon III, accompanying the archaeologist Léon Heuzey...

 at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts

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 in Paris

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. He received the first Prix de Rome

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, awarded him in 1880 on the basis of a design for a hospital

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 for sick children along the Mediterranean Sea

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. Consequently, he became a member of the French Academy in Rome

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, staying there from 1881 until 1884.

He supervised the work of three other architects at the 1897-1900 Grand Palais

Grand Palais

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, and worked at the Petit Palais

Petit Palais

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 from 1896 until 1900. He was elected to membership in the Académie des Beaux-Arts

Académie des beaux-arts

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 in 1902. In 1905 he was chosen by Leopold II of Belgium

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 to design the Arcades du Cinquantenaire

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 in Brussels

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; also for Brussels, he designed the Royal Museum for Central Africa

Royal Museum for Central Africa

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, begun in 1904 and finished in 1910.

Girault died in Paris in 1932.