Émile Gilbert

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Émile-Jacques Gilbert (1795 — 1874) was a French architect.

In 1838 Gilbert was commissioned to reconstruct the hospital for the insane at Charenton along modern more humane lines recommended by Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol; the new structure was completed in 1845. In 1843 Gilbert was commissioned to erect the first of the model penitentiaries following designs of Guillaume-Abel Blouet, the Mazas, in Paris.^[1] In 1858 he was commissioned to build the new Hôtel Dieu opposite Notre Dame on the Île de la Cité, Paris.^[2]

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1. ^ David Van Zanten, "Nineteenth-Century French Government Architectural Services and the Design of the Monuments of Paris" Art Journal 48.1, Nineteenth-Century French Art Institutions (Spring 1989:16-22) p. 17.
2. ^ Van Zanten, eo. loc.