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Formigé, Jean-Camille
(b Boussat, Gironde, 24 July 1845; d Montfermeil, 27 Aug 1926). French architect. He studied (1865–9) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and had an important career in the Service des Edifices Diocésains, which he joined in 1876. He succeeded Charles Laisné as diocesan architect of Auch in 1879 and subsequently became architect of Meaux, Poitiers and Laval. He finally became inspecteur général adjoint in 1901. At the same time he worked for the Commission des Monuments Historiques. The various buildings he restored included the ancient abbey of Conques (begun 1878) and, in Poitiers, the churches of Notre-Dame-La-Grande, Ste Radegonde and St Hilaire Le Grand, as well as the Palais de Justice. He helped with the excavation (1881–2) of the ruins of Sanxay and restored the abbey of St-Savin-sur-Gartempe, the castle at Chauvigny (all Vienne) and the church at Poissy (Yvelines). Most of his work in the South of France involved the restoration or conservation of Romano-Gallic remains. He became a member of the Monuments Historiques in 1887 but resigned in 1892 when the commissioners were forbidden to work also as architects for the Commission. Formigé’s work on new buildings in Paris included the Palais des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Libéraux at the Exposition Universelle of 1889, for which he won a prize, and the crematorium of Père-Lachaise (completed 1889; enlarged 1903–5). From 1884 to 1920 he was the architect to the Service des Promenades et Jardins in Paris and contributed significantly to the designs for the overground Métro. He was also architect-in-chief of the Conseil des Bâtiments Civils.
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