Bruno Renard

Bruno Renard (Turned the December 30th 1781 - Saint-Jose-ten-Noode June 17th 1861) is a Belgian architect .

Wire of Jean-Baptiste Fox-Bourla, of Douai, public works contractor which was charged, from 1819 to 1823, work to place-strong of Turned and the construction of the house of the governor to the citadel. Any young person, manifest Bruno Renard of the taste for the drawing and receive the first lessons of his maternal uncle Dominique Bourla, architect with Paris. It carries out its studies in the same city under the direction of two famous architects: Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fountain, authors of the Triumphal arch of the Carousel.

Thereafter, it returns to Tournai and is named, the February 22nd 1808, communal architect and professor of architecture to the Art school. It will be charged by the City with taking part in all work whose execution will transform the aspect of the city. It creates as follows: most of the Place Saint Pierre on the site of the church of the same name, demolished in 1821; the Place of the Park to the site of the Market in Consaux (town hall), demolished in 1822; the Hotel Gorin ; the Room in the Concerts of 1822 to 1824; the Quay Vifquin by removing, in 1812, the line of houses of the street of the Tanners, whose walls back plunged in the the Scheldt. It also implemented the restoration of the belfry as from 1844, in order to restore with the monument its aspect first. Also charged with the road works to cleanse the populeux districts of Turned, Renard is constrained by a badly advised administration to make certain acts of vandalism like the demolition of the Market in Consaux and the Pont of the Arch. It carries out however a statement of the destroyed Gothic monuments, thus leaving a collection of very faithful drawings of a great archaeological value.

Among much of construction private due to Bruno Renard, one can quote: the House of Jeu de Paume to the Lost street, Style Louis XVI; the imperial Manufacture of Carpet , its most monumental work, which it built on the site of the old convent of Clairisses, in the street of the same name, in 1811. One can still admire the entry Néo-classique which still formed part of a central gantry whose crowning was ensured by six statuettes due to the sculptor Paul Dumortier. A surviving statuette is with the museum of the Folklore; the Door of the cimetierre of North , of Style Worsens; the Castle of Chartreuse to Chercq; the principal building of the Carboniferous of Hornu (called today Large-Hornu) and its 200 working dwellings.

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