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unusual facts about Second Empire



Cornelius H. Evans House

Its architect is unknown, but it shows the influence of James Renwick, who in the years before had pioneered the mansard-roofed buildings that evolved into the Second Empire style with the original Corcoran Gallery in Washington and, closer to Hudson, Main Building at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

Goncourt brothers

They published books on aspects of 19th-century French art and society (e.g., Portraits intimes du XVIII siecle), dismissing the vulgarity of the Second Empire in favour of a more refined age.

John A. Hasecoster

Hasecoster designed buildings in many European and American styles, including Second Empire, Romanesque, Gothic revival, and Craftsman.

Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort

In 1846 he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies for Hérault, but the revolution of 1848 drove him into private life, from which he only emerged after the downfall of the Second Empire, when in February 1871 he was returned to the National Assembly.

Pierre-Jules Mêne

Mêne produced a number of animal sculptures, mainly of domestic animals including horses, cows and bulls, sheep and goats which were in vogue during the Second Empire.


see also

Alphand

Jean-Charles Alphand (1817-1891), engineer of the Second Empire of France

João Baptista de Lacerda

Soon after, he was invited by the Minister of Agriculture of the Second Empire to be the associate director of the section of anthropology, zoology and paleontology of the recently created National Museum of Natural History of Rio de Janeiro, by Emperor D. Pedro II.