Basilique Saint Martin de Tours
Tours
1886 - 1902
Hôtel de ville de Tours
Tours
1896 - 1904
Victor Laloux
Victor Laloux was a French architect born in Tours in 1850. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Jules André before winning the Prix de Rome in 1878. After several years at the Villa Medici, he established a successful career marked by a rigorous Beaux-Arts approach and an ability to integrate modern construction methods into monumental civic architecture. His most celebrated work is the Gare d’Orsay in Paris (1900), a railway station with an iron-and-glass structure enclosed in a stone envelope. In his hometown of Tours, Laloux designed several major landmarks, including the Hôtel de Ville and the Basilica of Saint-Martin. Over the course of his career he also taught at the École des Beaux-Arts.