Jean Walter, was a French architect who mainly worked for public housing

Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. Social housing is an umbrella term referring to rental housing which may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the...

, hospital architecture, and condominium

Condominium

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Life

After his graduated in 1902 from the École Spéciale d'Architecture

École Spéciale d'Architecture

The École Spéciale d'Architecture is a private school for architecture at 254, boulevard Raspail in Paris, France.The school was founded in 1865 by engineer Emile Trélat as reaction against the educational monopoly of Beaux-Arts architecture...

, he participates in the First World War, which he ends after an injury as a military attaché

Military attaché

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 for Georges Clemenceau

Georges Clemenceau

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. For nearly the final year of World War I he led France, and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles at the...

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Having detected in 1925 a rich ore body of lead and zinc close to Oujda

Oujda

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 in Morocco

Morocco

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, he founded in 1935 the "Société des mines de Zellidja", which brings him wealth an notoriety. He married in 1938 Domenica Guillaume, the widow of art dealer

Art dealer

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 Paul Guillaume

Paul Guillaume

Paul Guillaume was a French art dealer. Dealer of Chaim Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani, he was one of the first to organize African art exhibitions...

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He died suspiciously in 1957 after being hit by a car, leading some to speculate that his wife was responsible for his death.

Further reading

• « La première cité-jardin de France : Cité coopérative de Draveil », L’Architecture, Paris, 1914, pp. 237–241.
• F. Honoré, « Un hôpital “en hauteur” à Clichy », L’illustration, n°4614, 8 août 1931, Paris, 1931, pp. 494–495.
• Julius Posener
  Julius Posener
  Julius Posener was a German architectural historian, author and higher education teacher....
  
  , « Le nouvel hôpital Beaujon à Clichy », Architecture d’aujourd’hui, 1934, n°9, Boulogne, 1934, pp. 17–22.
• Jean Favier, « Le Concours de la Cité Hospitalière de Lille », La Construction Moderne, 50e année, n° 9, Paris, 2 décembre 1934, pp. 198–215.
• Notice sur la Cité hospitalière de Lille, Lille, Imprimerie L. Danel, sans date et sans nom d’auteur, ca. 1937, 8 p. :ill.
• Jean Walter, Renaissance de l’architecture médicale, Paris, E. Desfossés, 1945, 209 p. :ill.
• Stéphanie Samson, Le transfert de l’hôpital Beaujon à Clichy, mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Paris I, 1996, 200 p. :ill.
• Florence Trystam, La Dame au grand chapeau, l’histoire vraie de Domenica Walter Guillaume, Paris, Flammarion, 1996, 252 p.
• Merry Bromberger, Comment ils ont fait fortune, 1954 (Plon
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  Plon is a French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers.The Plon family were Walloons coming from Nivelle, France. One of their ancestors is probably the Danish typographer Jehan Plon who lived at the end of the 16th century.-History:The Editions Plon were...
  
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