Alexandre Brongniart [SEP] date of death
Alexandre Brongniart
Alexandre Brongniart (5 February 17707 October 1847) was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris.
Brongniart was also the founder of the Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres (National Museum of Ceramics), having been director of the Sèvres Porcelain Factory from 1800 to 1847.
Life.
He was born in Paris, the son of the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart and father of the botanist Adolphe-Théodore
Éloi Labarre
Étienne Éloi Labarre (1764–1833) was a French architect.
He produced the plans for the Colonne de la grande Armée at Wimille, erected in 1804 on the order of Napoléon I. From 1825 to 1827, he built Boulogne-sur-Mer's second-ever theatre (destroyed in a fire in 1854).
He was charged with completing the Palais Brongniart between 1813 and 1826, after the death of Alexandre Théodore Brongniart.