Noël Le Maresquier

Noël Le Maresquier (6 August 1903 – 20 October 1982) was a French architect and one of the most prominent postwar architects of France.

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Born in Paris, he was the son of the prominent architect Charles Lemaresquier, and succeeded his father as head of the Beaux-Arts de Paris grande école.^[1] He continued his father's Atelier Lemaresquier.^[2] He was the brother-in-law of French Prime Minister Michel Debré.^[3] Le Maresquier and his family are referred to as French "state nobility" by Pierre Bourdieu.^[3]

In 1944 he was tasked with the reconstruction of several cities bombed by the Americans like Saint-Nazaire; he was a supporter of the clean slate approach, unlike Louis Arretche in Saint-Malo.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Le Maresquier was married to the Spanish noblewoman Conchita López de Tejada; their daughter Isabelle Le Maresquier was an accomplished equestrian in the 1960s and 1970s. Isabelle was the mother of Marie-Isabelle Hénin, the wife of the Chancellor of Austria, Alexander Schallenberg.^[7]

[1]
"AGORHA : Bases de données de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA)". agorha.inha.fr. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
[2]
"CTHS - LE MARESQUIER Noël Louis Gabriel". cths.fr. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
[3]
Pierre Bourdieu, The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power (p. 293), Stanford University Press, 1998
[4]
"Discours prononcé lors de l'installation de Noël Le Maresquier, 21 June 1961", by M. Dupré, Publications de l'Institut de France, 1961, no. 14
[5]
"Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Noël Le Maresquier", by B. Zehrfuss, Publications de l'Institut de France, 1983, no. 11
[6]
Archives d'architectes, État des Fonds XIXe-XXe siècles, Institut français d'Architecture, by S. Gaubert and R. Cohu, Paris, 1996, fonds 44/19 and 75/14, p. 83, 149.
[7]
Genealogisches Handbuch der gräflichen Häuser [Genealogical Handbook of the Comital Houses]. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Vol. XVIII/139. Limburg an der Lahn: C. A. Starke Verlag. 2006. p. 375. ISBN 3-798-00839-6.

Noël Le Maresquier (6 August 1903 – 20 October 1982) was a French architect and one of the most prominent postwar architects of France.

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[1]
"AGORHA : Bases de données de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA)". agorha.inha.fr. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
[2]
"CTHS - LE MARESQUIER Noël Louis Gabriel". cths.fr. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
[3]
Pierre Bourdieu, The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power (p. 293), Stanford University Press, 1998
[4]
"Discours prononcé lors de l'installation de Noël Le Maresquier, 21 June 1961", by M. Dupré, Publications de l'Institut de France, 1961, no. 14
[5]
"Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Noël Le Maresquier", by B. Zehrfuss, Publications de l'Institut de France, 1983, no. 11
[6]
Archives d'architectes, État des Fonds XIXe-XXe siècles, Institut français d'Architecture, by S. Gaubert and R. Cohu, Paris, 1996, fonds 44/19 and 75/14, p. 83, 149.
[7]
Genealogisches Handbuch der gräflichen Häuser [Genealogical Handbook of the Comital Houses]. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Vol. XVIII/139. Limburg an der Lahn: C. A. Starke Verlag. 2006. p. 375. ISBN 3-798-00839-6.

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