| Birth Name: | Louis Jules César Bouchot |
| Louis-Jules Bouchot | |
| Birth Date: | 12 August 1817 |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Education: | |
| Occupation: | Architect |
| Awards: | Ordre des Arts et des Lettres |
Louis Jules César "Louis-Jules" Bouchot (in French pronounced as /lwi ʒyl buʃo/; 12 August 1817 – 15 August 1907) was a 19th-century French architect responsible in particular for the construction of the Nice and Milan railway stations.
Louis-Jules Bouchot was born 12 août 1817[1] at No 47 rue de Seine in Paris, from Félix Bouchot, an employee of the General Post Office administration, and Adélaïde Louise Étienne.[2]
A student of the 1834 class, he studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was a pupil of his uncle, Alphonse de Gisors.
He alternated work with institutional commissions and private orders.
Chief architect of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) before becoming the official architect of the French government,[3] he was one of the recipients of the rare album of the PLM railway commissioned in 1859 by James de Rothschild to photographer Édouard Baldus.[4]
Bouchot died 15 August 1907[5] at his home No 6 rue de l'université in Paris.[6] His funeral was held in the French capital, followed by a religious ceremony at église Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin then the burial at Montparnasse Cemetery.[7]
Bouchot was made a chevalier in the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur 12 August 1860 and was promoted an officer on 5 February 1878.[11]
A bust of Louis-Jules Bouchot was cast by Gustave Adolphe Désiré Crauk. The preserves a plaster copy and the Musée d'Orsay a bronze that belonged to the sculptor's widow before its acquisition in 1928.