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In he published the first official List of Historic Monuments in France, with entries. He organized a systematic review to prioritize restoration projects, and established a network of correspondents in each region who kept an eye on the projects, made new discoveries, and signaled any vandalism.

Though he was a confirmed atheist, many of the buildings he protected and restored were churches, which he treated as works of art and shrines of national history. He often disputed with local church authorities, insisting that more recent architectural modifications be removed, and the buildings restored to their original appearance.

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He also confronted local governments who wanted to demolish or convert old structures. Viollet-le-Duc was twenty-six, and had studied mathematics and chemistry but not architecture; he learned his profession from practical experience and travel. He returned the statues which had been removed during the French Revolution , and later restored the spire.

Reproduce with prudence the parts destroyed, where there exist certain traces. Don't give yourself to inventions When the traces of the ancient state are lost, the wisest is to copy the analog motifs in a building of the same type in the same province". He participated personally in the restoration of many of the monuments.

His tastes and talents were well suited to archaeology, combining an unusual linguistic talent, accurate scholarship, remarkable historical appreciation, and a sincere love for the arts of design and construction. He had some practical skills in design. He had them joined together and supervised both the construction and the collection of medieval art to be displayed.

Together they explored the castle, which had recently been taken over by the Sub-Prefecture. In an upstairs room they found the six tapestries of the series The Lady and the Unicorn. The novella tells the story of a statue of Venus that comes to life and kills the son of its owner, whom it believes to be its husband. The story was inspired by a story of the Middle Ages recounted by the historian Freher. That is the great art of Hoffmann and his fantastic stories".

Colomba is a tragic story about a Corsican vendetta. The central character, Colomba, convinces her brother that she must kill a man to avenge an old wrong done to their family. This story was the result of his long trip to that island researching historic monuments, and is filled with details about Corsican culture and history. When it was published in the Revue des deux Mondes it had an immense popular success.

It is still widely studied in French schools as an example of Romanticism. It tells of a beautiful Bohemienne Romani who robs a soldier, then falls in love with him. On her behalf he kills a man and becomes an outlaw, then he discovers she is already married, and in jealousy he kills her husband. When he learns she has fallen in love with a matador , he kills her, and then is arrested and sentenced to death. Carmen did not have the same popular success as Colomba.

He first campaigned methodically for election to the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, the highest academic body, which he finally attained in November He patiently lobbied the members each time a member died and a seat was vacant. He was finally elected on March 14, , on the seventeenth round of voting.

It was six hundred pages long and published in five parts in the Journal des Deux Mondes between December and February In he read Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin in French, and wanted to read all of Pushkin in the original language. He began to attend the literary salon of the Russian writers in Paris, the Cercle des Arts on rue Choiseul, to perfect his Russian. He also wrote several essays on Russian history and literature. On March 8, he wrote to his friend Madame de Montijo: In he helped organize a successful campaign to preserve the medieval Citadel of Carcassonne.

In he arranged for the crypt of Saint-Laurent in Grenoble to be classified as an historical monument. On April 30, , his mother, who lived with him and was very close to him, died. He also became entangled in a legal affair involving one of his friends, a professor of mathematics from Pisa named Count Libri Carrucci Della Sommai, who settled in France in and became a professor at the Sorbonne , a member of College of France , a holder of the Legion of Honor, and the Inspector General of Libraries of France.

It was discovered that under his academic cover he was stealing valuable manuscripts from state libraries, including texts by Dante and Leonardo da Vinci , and reselling them. When he was exposed, he fled to England, taking 30, works in sixteen trunks, and claimed that he was victim of a plot. He attacked the incompetence of the prosecutors and blamed the Catholic Church for inventing the case. On the same day that his mother died, he was summoned before the state prosecutors, and was sentenced to fifteen days in prison and fined one thousand francs.

The Revue des deux Mondes was also fined two hundred francs. I answered, 'I hope that you will not find me'. He extended his hand, and I turned my back. I have not seem him since. I consider that he is dead In November she was invited to the Palace of Fontainebleau , where the Emperor proposed marriage to her. It soon became clear the Empress was not the Emperor's only romantic interest; Napoleon III continued his affairs with old mistresses, leaving the Empress often alone.

He was obliged to attend all the court events, including masked balls, though he hated balls and dancing. He told stories, acted in plays, took part in charades, and "made a fool of himself", as he wrote to his friend Jenny Dacquin in Destiny did not make me to be a courtesan He met prominent visitors, including Otto von Bismarck , whom he described as "very much a gentleman" and "more spiritual than the usual German".

He gave very little attention to his role as Senator; in seventeen years, he spoke in the chamber only three times. However, when he informed the Emperor of this project, the Emperor expressed his own admiration for Caesar, and took over the project. The History of Julius Caesar was published on March 10, , under the name of Napoleon III, and sold one hundred forty thousand copies on the first day.

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He made his last long tour of monuments in , though he remained the chief inspector of monuments until He wrote his last works, three novellas, in the genre of the fantastic: It was not published until , after his death; La Chambre bleu , written as an amusement for the Empress, is the story of two lovers in a hotel room, who are terrified to find a stream of blood coming under the door of their room, then realize it is only port wine.

Lokis is a horror story borrowed from a Danish folk tale, about a creature which is half man and half bear. This story was also written to amuse the Empress, and he read it aloud to the court in July , but the subject matter shocked the court, and the children were sent from the room. It was published in September in the Revue des deux Mondes.

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He continued to work for the preservation of monuments, attending meetings of the Commission and advising Boeswillwald, who had replaced him as Inspector of Monuments in He began writing a series of twelve articles on the life of Peter the Great , based on a work in Russian by Nikolai Ustrialov, which appeared in the Journal des Savants between June and February He wrote to a friend that "Peter the Great was an abominable man surrounded by abominable villains. That is amusing enough for me".

It is richer than German, and has a marvelous clarity It has a great poet and another almost as grand, both killed in duels when they were young, and a great novelist, my friend Turgenev". In the s he still traveled regularly. He went to England every year between and , sometimes on official business, organizing the French participation in the Universal Exposition of Fine Arts in London, and in to transfer two antique Roman busts from the British Museum to the Louvre, and to see his friend Anthony Panizzi , the director of the British Museum. In he visited Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Spain, where he attended his last bullfight.

By , he was exhausted by the endless ceremonies and travels of the court, and thereafter he rarely participated in the imperial tours. He developed serious respiratory problems, and began to spend more and more time in the south of France, in Cannes. He became more and more conservative, opposing the more liberal reforms proposed by the Emperor in the s.

The political crisis between Prussia and France that began in May required his return from Cannes to Paris, where he participated in the emergency meetings of the Senate. His health worsened, and he only rarely could leave his house.

The Empress sent him fruit from the imperial gardens, and on June 24 he was visited by his old lover, Valentine Delessert, and by Viollet-le-Duc. His health continued to decline; he told a friend: I see myself arriving at death, and am preparing myself". The war with Prussia began with patriotic enthusiasm, but quickly turned into a debacle. The French Army and the Emperor were surrounded at Sedan. He told his friends that he dreaded the arrival of a republic, which he called "organized disorder". In the chamber he wrote a brief note to Panizzi: There is a general collapse, a French Army which surrenders, and an Emperor who allows himself to be taken prisoner.

All falls at once. At this moment the legislature is being invaded and we cannot deliberate any longer. The National Guard which we just armed pretends to govern. Adieu , my dear Panizzi, you know what I suffer". The Third Republic was proclaimed on the same day. Despite his illness, he hurried to the Tuileries Palace hoping to see the Empress, but the Palace was surrounded by armed soldiers and a crowd.

He died there on September 23, , five days before his 67th birthday. A few months later, in May , during the Paris Commune , a mob burned his Paris home, along with his library, manuscripts, archaeological notes and collections because of his close association with the deposed Napoleon III. He lived with his mother and father in Paris until the death of his father in September From he shared an apartment with his mother on the Left Bank at 10 rue des Beaux-Arts, in the same building as the offices of the Revue des deux Mondes.

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They moved to a house at 18 rue Jacob in until his mother died in He had a series of romantic affairs, sometimes carried out by correspondence. In he began a relationship by correspondence with Jenny Dacquin. Their relationship continued for ten years, but they only met six or seven times, and then rarely alone. In , after his death, she published all of his letters under the title Lettres a une inconnue , or "Letters to an Unknown", in several volumes.

He then had a longer and more serious relationship with Valentine Delessert. Born in , she was the daughter of Count Alexandre de Laborde, aide-de-camp to King Louis Philippe, and she was married to Gabriel Delessert, a prominent banker and real estate developer, who was twenty years older.