Gabriel Auguste Ancelet
GabrielAuguste Ancelet was a French architect who undertook various projects for the Emperor Napoleon III, and later taught for many years at the cole des BeauxArts in Paris.
GabrielAuguste Ancelet was born in Paris onDecember 1829. In 1845 he entered the studio of the architects Lequeux and Victor Baltard. From 1846 to 1851 he studied at the cole des BeauxArts. In 1848 he won a prize for his drawing of a fountain for Algeria. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for architecture in 1851 on the subject of a hospice in the Alps.
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