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principal inspector. Succeeding Belanger as government architect in 1818, he designed many important public and private buildings in Paris and also in the See also:

south of See also:

France. From 1819 to 183o in collaboration with le Cointe he directed the royal fetes and ceremonials. After making architectural See also:

TOURS

tours in See also:

Germany, See also:

England, See also:

Italy and See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, he published the result of his observations in the latter See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in the See also:

WORK

work See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

Architecture See also:

ANTIQUE (Lat. antiquus, old)

antique de la Sicile (3 vols., 1826–183o; new edition, 1866–1867), and also in Architecture moderne de la Sicile (1826–1835). One of his important discoveries was that See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour had been made use of in See also:

ancient See also:

Greek architecture, a subject which he especially discussed in Architecture polychrome chez See also:

les Grecs (183o) and in Restitution du See also:

temple d'Empedocle a Selinunte (1851); and in accordance with the doctrines enunciated in these See also:

WORKS

works he was in the See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit of making colour an important feature in most of his architectural designs. His principal See also:

BUILDING

building is the See also:

church of St See also:

Vincent de See also:

Paul in the See also:

BASILICA

basilica See also:

style, which was constructed between 1830 and 1844. He also designed the two fountains in the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

Place de la Concorde, the See also:

CIRCUS (Lat. circus, Gr. Kipeos or Kptxot, a ring or' circle; probably " circus " and " ring " are of the same origin)

Circus of the Empress, the Rotunda of the panoramas, many cafes and restaurants of the Champs Elysees, the houses forming the circle See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the Arc de Triomphe de 1'Etoile, besides many embellishments of the Bois de See also:

BOULOGNE, or BOULLONGNE

Boulogne and other places. In 1833 he was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts. He died in Paris on the 25th of See also:

March 1867.

End of Article: HITTORFF, JACQUES IGNACE (1792-1867)

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