author
Édouard Corroyer
d. 1904
A 19th-century French architect and restorer, he is best remembered for his work on historic religious buildings and for his close connection to the study of Mont-Saint-Michel. Trained in the circle of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, he combined practical restoration work with serious architectural writing.
4 Audiobooks
Saint Michel et le Mont-Saint-Michel
by Abel Anastase Germain, Pierre Marie Brin, Édouard Corroyer
Gothic Architecture
by Édouard Corroyer
L'Architecture romane
by Édouard Corroyer
L'Architecture Gothique
by Édouard Corroyer
About the author
Born in Amiens on September 14, 1835, and died in Paris on January 30, 1904, Édouard-Jules Corroyer was a French architect whose career focused on church architecture and the restoration of historic monuments.
He studied under Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, one of the major figures in 19th-century French restoration. Corroyer became especially associated with Mont-Saint-Michel, where his work and research helped build his reputation as both a practicing architect and a scholar of medieval architecture.
Alongside restoration projects, he also wrote on architectural history, which helped preserve and explain the buildings he cared for. His career reflects a period when architects were often historians as well, moving between design, preservation, and close study of France's architectural past.