Victor Mollet Explained

Victor Mollet
Birth Date:22 August 1860
Birth Place:Seclin, France
Death Place:Lille, France

Victor Jean-Baptiste Mollet (22 August 1860 – 17 December 1944), usually simply Victor Mollet, was a French architect based in Lille. He was the first architect from the Nord–Pas-de-Calais region to receive a degree from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and became one of the more prominent exponents of regionalist architecture in northern France at the turn of the twentieth century.

Life and career

Mollet matriculated first to the local Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lille, where he was a student of Alfred Newnham, before entering the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1884. He studied with Louis-Jules André, and then his successor Victor Laloux, receiving his degree (diplôme) on 22 January 1891.[1] [2] That same year, Mollet participated in the Salon des artists français in Paris, exhibiting a country house ("Maison de campagne"), which won an honorable mention in the architecture section.[3]

Mollet began practice in Lille and was the first architect in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais to have received a diploma from the Ecole in Paris. He also became chief of the architecture studio at the Ecole régionale de Lille.[4]

In 1896, he was designated as the architect in charge of the repairs to the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, then was named the official architect for the structure in 1912.[5] [6]

His most famous work is the Villa Saint-Charles in Lambersart, just outside Lille, an eclectic, regionalist mansion constructed between 1892 and 1894 for his father, Charles Mollet, a successful master carpenter and entrepreneur in Seclin.[7] Since 2000, the villa has been classified as an official French Monument historique.[8]

In the 1930s, he was commissioned with his son Louis Mollet to construct the atrium of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.[9] Victor Mollet was very attached to his hometown of Seclin, where he built many houses for rich industrialists such as the Dujardin, Guillemaud, and Duriez families.

He was the brother of Marie-Virginie Duhem, who was the Doyenne des Français (oldest woman in France) from 1975 to 1978 and the oldest living person on earth for five months.[10]

Major works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AGORHA: Bases de données de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) . agorha.inha.fr . 2021-03-16.
  2. Edmond Delaire, Les Architectes Eléves à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1793–1907, 2d ed. (Paris: Librarie de la Construction Moderne, 1907), 351.
  3. Web site: Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans... . Gallica . 1892 . 2021-03-16.
  4. Web site: Bulletin des réfugiés du département du Nord : paraissant deux fois par semaine... . Gallica . 18 December 1915 . 2021-03-16.
  5. Web site: Conseil municipal de Lille . 724.
  6. Web site: du 06/02/1912 au 30/12/1912 (1D/2/111) Archives municipales de... . Mnesys . 2021-03-16.
  7. Web site: Édifices inscrits aux monuments historiques / Découvrir notre ville / Tourisme et culture / Accueil - Commune de Lambersart . www.lambersart.fr . 2021-03-16.
  8. Web site: Maison d'habitation Villa Saint-Charles à Lambersart - PA59000061 - Monumentum . monumentum.fr . 2020-09-13.
  9. Web site: French newspaper page . JPG.
  10. "La Légion d'honneur à cent dix ans," Le Monde.fr (1977-01-24) https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1977/01/24/la-legion-d-honneur-a-cent-dix-ans_2854414_1819218.html Accessed 2020-12-11.
  11. Web site: Lambersart: La Villa Saint-Charles - une villa-château primée au charme authentique . La Voix du Nord . 26 July 2019 . 2022-06-25.
  12. Web site: 12–18 boulevard Carnot . PSS.eu . 2022-06-25.
  13. Web site: - À la découverte de l'Art déco dans les rues de Seclin . La Voix du Nord . 2019-08-12 . 2020-09-15.
  14. Web site: 560i8. diffuweb.lillemetropole.fr.
  15. Web site: Archiwebture —. archiwebture.citedelarchitecture.fr.
  16. Web site: Seclin 14-18 : Les cérémonies de 1923, Recueillement et Renaissance. December 7, 2015. Seclin et Environs Métropole de Lille.
  17. Web site: MOLLET Victor | Les monuments aux morts. monumentsmorts.univ-lille.fr.
  18. Web site: La voix du nord . Marcq: les 500 ans de l'église Saint-Vincent valent plus qu'une messe! . lavoixdunord.fr . 2016-09-06.
  19. Web site: 560i121 . diffuweb.lillemetropole.fr . 2020-09-15.

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