Jacques Louis Marie Lacassin (6 September 1847 – April 1926) was a French architect. He was second at the Prix de Rome in 1872 and inspector of diocesan works[1] in Haute-Garonne.

Jacques Lacassin
Born(1847-09-06)6 September 1847
Toulouse, France
DiedApril 1926
Toulouse, France
NationalityFrance
OccupationArchitect

Biography

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Lacassin was the son of Marie Mondous and Louis Lacassin, Ébéniste.

Jacques Lacassin joined the École des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse [fr] and won the Grand Prix Municipal d'Architecture in 1868. Subsequently, the latter joined the Beaux-Arts de Paris and was a student of the architect Louis-Jules André, himself a former student of Henri Labrouste.[2] Jacques Lacassin studied there alongside Victor Laloux. He entered second class at the end of 1869 and remained there until 1872, after his studies were temporarily put on hold by the war. He was a steward at the Grand Prix de Rome in 1872 where he finished second.

In 1873, the latter returned to Toulouse, settled at 5 rue Peyras [fr] and began practicing as an architect. He carried out his first project for a “courtyard” house and villa on rue d'Alsace-Lorraine for Mister Arzac. Subsequently, until 1894, he created a large number of houses and buildings. In September 1894, he participated in the project to extend rue de Metz [fr], in association with Bernard Deffès, where he built several buildings. He became inspector of diocesan works the same year and remained so until 1920.[3] He also became president of the regional society of architects of the Midi in 1906. He was also a member of the Artistic Union of Toulouse.[2]

Personal life

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Lacassin married Marie Gaillard, who died in Paris on 5 January 1929. Their daughter Elisabeth married the architect Joseph Gilet, born in 1876 and died in 1943. Together, they had a son, Jean-Louis Gilet, also an architect. The latter two joined forces in 1932 and Jean-Louis Gilet subsequently succeeded his father.[4]

Architecture

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Architectural current

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Jacques Lacassin was eclectic in the variety of architectural styles used. He had a "regionalist" style during his work for the diocese, through the church of Caubiac, or the church of Mirepoix-sur-Tarn similar to neo-Gothic.

Lacassin's civil public architecture was very sober, with the Vignaux school, perhaps inspired by rationalism.

For private architecture, Lacassin had a pronounced taste for Italian neo-Renaissance, French classicism, neo-mannerism, and even neo-baroque at the end of the century. The sculpted decorations are very ornate, and he used brick-stone polychromy. When commissioning a "hotel", in reality closer to a Haussmannian building, there is no specific stylistic particularity.[5]

Architectural achievements (in Toulouse, unless otherwise stated)

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1874

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  • the Landou house, rue Saint-Michel;
  • the Maybois chalet;
  • Funerary monuments.

1875

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1876

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1877

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1878

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  • the Dupac house;
  • the Peace store;
  • the Desmarais oil warehouse;
  • transformed a former convent into a residential house; restored the Poumayrac building.

1879

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  • the restoration of the Merville church;[7]
  • the pavilion for the Chanat exhibition;
  • the Desmarais oil warehouse in Narbonne;
  • the Gresse country house.

1880

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  • the Fraisse building, 6 rue Baronie [fr];
  • the Deutch oil warehouse.

1881–1882

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1883

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1885

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1889

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1894

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1898

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1899

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1900

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1902

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1903

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  • restored the church of Arbas;
  • the bell tower of Vignaux;
  • work at the school and town hall of Préserville (completed in 1907).

1904

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1907

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Bibliography

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  • Foucaud, Odile (2000). L’architecture au XIXème siècle à Toulouse (in French). Paris: Somogy.

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