Juste Lisch Explained

Jean Juste Gustave Lisch (10 June 1828 – 24 August 1910) was a French architect.^[1]

A native of Alençon, Lisch studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and was pupil of Léon Vaudoyer and Henri Labrouste. His architectural career was geared towards civic work: stations, public buildings, churches, and restoration of monuments.^[1]

Juste retired in 1901 and died in Paris in 1910. He is buried in the Rouen monumental cemetery.^[1]

Selected works

• renovation of the oratory at Germigny-des-Prés, 1867–1876
• Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel station, 1878
• Gare Saint-Lazare, with the attached Hôtel Terminus, Paris, 1885–87
• Le Havre station, 1888
• Javel station, Paris, 1889
• Avenue Foch station, Paris, 1900
• Invalides station, Paris, 1900
• The Hôtel de Ville in La Rochelle
• Lyon Magistrates' court
• Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire church
• Ferrières, Manche church
• Notre-Dame-de-Cléry church
• Château de Pierrefonds (the last part of renovation works, 1885)

Notes and References

1. https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/espace-professionnels/professionnels/chercheurs/rech-rec-art-home/notice-artiste.html?no_cache=1&nnumid=39910&retouroeuvre=%252Ffr%252Fcollections%252Fcatalogue-des-oeuvres%252Fnotice.html%253Fno_cache%253D1%2526nnumid%253D58114 Juste Lisch