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Charles Garnier was born Jean-Louis Charles Garnier on 6 November 1825 in Paris, France. His father was originally from Sarthe, and had worked as a blacksmith, wheelwright, and coachbuilder before settling down in Paris to work in a horse-drawn carriage rental business.
Charles attended the École de Dessin, the atelier of Louis Hippolyte Lebas, and the École des Beaux-Arts in 1841.
Charles won the 1860 competition for the new Paris Opera House. One of the most famous buildings of the century, the Opéra (completed 1875) became a symbol of Second Empire taste, and its eclectic neo-Baroque style became characteristic of late 19th-century Beaux-Arts design. Garnier’s command of the sweeping interiors was equalled by his mastery of balance, punctuation, and termination of mass and surface.
Garnier also influenced the style of resort architecture for the wealthy with his small theatre for the casino of Monte-Carlo (1878), the casino and baths at Vittel, and the villas he built in Bordighera, notably his own (1872–73). Among his other works was the observatory at Nice, an apartment house, and the Hôtel du Cercle de la Librairie in Paris.
For the Paris Exposition of 1889, he conceived the Exposition des Habitations Humaines, which became the subject of his book L’Habitation humaine (with A. Ammann, 1892). He also published, in 1871, Le Théâtre and, in 1876–81, Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris, a monumental description and defense of his work.
Charles was a French architect of the exuberant neo-baroque style, an outgrowth of the effervescent but stricter classicism of Napoleon III's Second Empire style that began in early 1850. He is famous for his works - the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. He was one of the first to build in the Italian Riviera after the arrival of the railroad in 1871 and later contributed various private and public buildings to the town.
He was the recipient of Grand Prix de Rome in 1848.
After his death, a public monument, completed in 1902 to designs by Jean-Louis Pascal and crowned with a copy of the bust of Garnier, which had been created by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in 1869, was erected west of the Rotonde de l'Empereur of the Palais Garnier.
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At the completion of the Opéra, Garnier was elected a member of the Institut de France.
Garnier would all but ignore the fact that he was born of humble origins, preferring to claim Sarthe as his birthplace.
Charles married to Louise.
