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; the new structure was completed in 1845. In 1843 Gilbert, as Architect of the City of Paris, was commissioned to erect the first of the model penitentiaries following designs of Guillaume-Abel Blouet, the Mazas Prison, in Paris. In 1858 he was commissioned to build the new Hôtel Dieu opposite Notre Dame on the

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, Paris.Van Zanten, ''eo. loc.''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilbert, Emile-Jacques 19th-century French architects 1795 births 1874 deaths Architects from Paris École des Beaux-Arts alumni Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Prix de Rome for architecture