Background
Bigot was born in Orbec, Calvados.
Bigot was born in Orbec, Calvados.
He studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the atelier of Louis-Jules André.
He later became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. He is particularly known for Le Plan de Rome, a large architectural model of Ancient Rome. lieutenant is a plaster model of about 70 square metres at a scale of 1:400, showing Rome as it would have been in the time of the emperor Constantine I (4th century AD).
The model is preserved at the University of Caen and is itself listed as an ancient monument.
A second version is in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels. Bigot was also the architect of the Institut d"art et d"archéologie, in Paris, completed in 1928.
