Paul Tournon
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Paul Tournon (b. February 19, 1881 - December 22, 1964) was a French architect. He was born in Marseille and died in Paris.
He was an architect in chief of many French civil buildings and national palaces, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
He is known for his reinforced concrete religious buildings such as the Église Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus in Élisabethville (Yvelines) and the église du Saint-Esprit in Paris and Cathédrale Sacré-Coeur in Casablanca, Morocco.
He was the son-in-law of Édouard Branly, the husband of Élisabeth Branly, painter, and the father of two girls, Florence Tournon-Branly, author of stained glasses, and Marion Tournon-Branly, architect and professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the American school of Fontainebleau.
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Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent French-language wikipedia article, accessed February 14 2007.
