Auguste Henri Vildieu

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Auguste Henri Vildieu was the French architectural adjutant in Hanoi while that city was an administrative center for the French colony of Indochina. Vildieu constructed several grand European-style buildings for the colonial government, including:

  • the Bureaux et Résidences Supérieure (including the Tonkin Palace)
  • the Mairie (City Hall)
  • the (Supreme Court)
  • the post office
  • the Presidential Palace 1900-1906[1] (then known as the Palace of the Governor-General of Indochina)
  • the Public Works Building
  • the

Vildieu may also have been involved with the construction of the local Roman Catholic cathedral. While Vildieu spent most of his working life designing French buildings in Vietnam, he early on designed a Vietnamese building in France for the . This pavilion was modeled on the porch of the , and was referred to at the Exposition as the "Palace of Annan and Tonkin".

References[]

  1. ^ Logan, William Stewart (2000), Hanoi: Biography of a City, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, p. 72, ISBN 086840-443-8


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