Nationality French Name Paul Tournon Children Marion Tournon-Branly | Occupation Architect Role Architect | |
Buildings Structures Casablanca Cathedral, Eglise du Saint‑Esprit, Notre‑Dame‑des‑Missions‑du‑cygne d'Enghien | ||
Paul Tournon (b. February 19, 1881 - December 22, 1964) was a French architect. He was born in Marseille and died in Paris.
He was an architect in chief of many French civil buildings and national palaces, and a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts.
He is known for his reinforced concrete religious buildings such as the Eglise Sainte-Therese-de-l'Enfant-Jesus in Elisabethville (Yvelines), with extensive sculptural work by sculptor Carlo Sarrabezolles. Also, Tournon designed the Eglise du Saint-Esprit in Paris, Cathedrale du Sacre-Coeur in Casablanca and several churches in Morocco.
Tournon was the son-in-law of Edouard Branly, the husband of Elisabeth Branly, painter, and the father of two girls, Florence Tournon-Branly, author of stained glasses, and Marion Tournon-Branly, architect and professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and the Fontainebleau Schools.