Paul Bigot



Paul Bigot (20 October 1870 – 8 June 1942) was a French architect.

Biography
Bigot was born in Orbec, Calvados. He studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the atelier of Louis-Jules André. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1900, which enabled him to study in Rome at the Villa Medici. He later became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.

He is particularly known for his "Plan of Rome", a large architectural model of Ancient Rome. It is a plaster model of about 70 square metres at a scale of 1:400, showing Rome as it would have been in the time of the emperor Constantine I (4th century AD). The model is preserved at the University of Caen and is itself listed as an ancient monument. A second version is in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels.

Bigot was the architect of the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, in Paris, completed in 1932.

Works

 * 1908-1942: Plan de Rome, a large model of Rome in 350 CE.
 * 1920-1932: Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, Paris
 * 1922: reconstruction of the town of Fargniers following its comprehensive destruction during World War I, in association with Henri Paul Nénot, financed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
 * 1924-1934: reconstruction of the neighborhood around the Saint-Quentin station in Saint-Quentin, including the Monument aux Morts with sculptors Henri Bouchard and Paul Landowski
 * 1930: Monument of the First Battle of the Marne in Mondement
 * 1933: Monument to Aristide Briand on the Quai d'Orsay, Paris, with Henri Bouchard and Paul Landowski
 * 1935: refurbishment of Hôtel Matignon as office and residence of the French Prime Minister
 * 1935-1939: expansion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * 1936: Monument to Ferdinand Foch, Paris, with sculptor Robert Wlérick