Maurice Tranchant de Lunel explained

Maurice Tranchant de Lunel (25 November 1869, in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre – 1944, in La Seyne-sur-Mer), was a 20th-century French architect and writer.

Biography

An architect of historical monuments in Morocco, Maurice Tranchant de Lunel was the designer of the Grand Mosque of Paris.[1]

In 1912, he was appointed director of the Department of Antiquities, fine art and historic monuments of the French protectorate in Morocco by Lyautey. His mission was to preserve Moroccan monuments and establish a ranking list of historical monuments in Morocco.[2]

From 1920 to 1923, he was inspector of fine arts, antiques, monuments and architect of the Protectorate of Morocco.

He was also a painter (watercolorist), illustrator and writer.

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Notes and References

  1. Théliol Mylène, Le Service des beaux-arts, antiquités et monuments historiques, clef de voûte de la politique patrimoniale française au Maroc sous la résidence de Lyautey (1912–1925), Outre-mers, tome 98, n°370-371, 1er semestre 2011. Le contact colonial dans l'empire français : XIXe–XXe siècles, sous la direction de Maria Romo-Navarrete et Sarah Mohamed-Gaillard, pp. 185-193 (DOI : 10.3406/outre.2011.4545)
  2. Nadège Theilborie, La patrimonialisation du Maroc, entre tradition et rupture de l’héritage français, Livraisons de l'histoire de l'architecture 23 (2012); DOI : 10.4000/lha.130